But it's true. In the mid-1800s Lucien Maxwell, a dauntless former mountain man, ruled a huge chunk of New Mexico and lower Colorado
Sam meddles shamelessly in U.S. politics and carries on with Miss Liberty, but nobody knows for sure exactly where he came from
As part of our 150th-anniversary celebration, we're going to take 150 museum treasures on the road
The Smithsonian Associates have a 'national treasure' in their midst, but shhh, don't tell...
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A sculpture in the Smithsonian collection reveals much about how the Indians of the West were viewed in the early ages of the United States
These tiny prehistoric parasites have evolved a bold array of weapons, the better to torture their hosts
Gag writers and cartoonists are good pen pals as long as they can get a laugh in seven seconds (tick, tick . . .)
In search of the transcendent, the Dutch painter created grids of red, blue and yellow that are very much with us
In WWII, thousands of captive Germans found our prison camps so hospitable that they later became U.S. citizens
The Festival of American Folklife is a popular model for presenting grass-roots culture to the public
In 1939 Moritz Schoenberger, a Hungarian Jew living in Vienna, wanted to join his family in America. His ordeal is told at the National Postal Museum
At the Fourth of July Butterfly Count, devotees census swallowtails, wood-nymphs and all their colorful kin
You can't always tell a book by its cover; in fact, it may not even have a cover. These artists' books convey their message in unexpected ways
How a snake, attended by alarums and excursions, made it from an Asian jungle to the National Zoo and so to its present berth in a Smithsonian museum
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