Smithsonian Perspectives
As part of our 150th-anniversary celebration, we’re going to take 150 museum treasures on the road
Around the Mall & Beyond
The Smithsonian Associates have a ‘national treasure’ in their midst, but shhh, don’t tell…
The Dying Tecumseh and the Birth of a Legend
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
My Dog Has Fleas, Also My Cat, My Bird, My…
These tiny prehistoric parasites have evolved a bold array of weapons, the better to torture their hosts
Masters of the Quick Guffaw
Gag writers and cartoonists are good pen pals as long as they can get a laugh in seven seconds (tick, tick …)
Mondrian and the Eternal Rectangle
In search of the transcendent, the Dutch painter created grids of red, blue and yellow that are very much with us
‘America Beats By Far Anything,’ Said the Ex-POW
In WWII, thousands of captive Germans found our prison camps so hospitable that they later became U.S. citizens
Smithsonian Perspectives
The Festival of American Folklife is a popular model for presenting grass-roots culture to the public
Around the Mall & Beyond
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
Flutter by and Be Counted!
At the Fourth of July Butterfly Count, devotees census swallowtails, wood-nymphs and all their colorful kin
Science Defined by the Hands of a Book Artist
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
The Object at Hand
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
The Toll You Pay to Enter This Eden is Sweat, Pain and Fear
Not far from Siberia, our second-largest national park is a haven for bear, moose, wolf … but not tourists
The Wolcott Children’s Ballet: In the Backwoods, Dancing Their Hearts Out
It’s a story grounded in a real labor of love sore muscles, hand-stitched costumes, and dreams of grace and aspirations fulfilled
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