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On March 17, everyone’s green-even the Chicago River. Yet St. Patrick remains colored in myth
In this interview, Ernest “Pat” Furgurson, author of “Catching Up with ‘Old Slow Trot,’” says some people are still fighting the Civil War
The Stranger and the Statesman
An excerpt from Nina Burleigh’s book, The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America’s Greatest Museum
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Why This Wealthy British Scientist Saw So Much Potential in the United States of America
James Smithson’s biographer offers insight into ideals born of the Age of Enlightenment that gave rise to the founding of the Smithsonian
Historians’ perspectives on George H. Thomas
Momentous or Merely Memorable
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Catching Up With “Old Slow Trot”
Stubborn and deliberate, General George Henry Thomas was one of the Union’s most brilliant strategists. So why was he cheated by history?
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A new biography depicts benefactor James Smithson as an exuberant, progressive man enamored of science
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Rebels by any name
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Rediscover five articles published between May 2002 and May 2006 that reveal another side of the emerging superpower
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A new series of commemorative coins honors presidential spouses whose achievements have long been overlooked
The ancient drink makes a comeback
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The intriguing and unexpected true story of America’s most heroic—and most dangerous—female spy
In this Q & A, Caroline Alexander, author of “Faces of War,” discusses robotic faces and the timelessness of war stories
Momentous or Merely Memorable
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“A whole lifetime was over,” legendary quarterback Y.A. Tittle recalls
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President Gerald R. Ford’s priority was to unite a divided nation. The decision that defined his term proved how difficult that would be
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At a former Georgia plantation, archaeologists delve into both the workaday and spiritual lives of slaves
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America’s most singular sensations are at the National Air and Space Museum
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Stricken by “vile melancholy,” the 18th-century critic and raconteur Samuel Johnson pioneered a modern therapy
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