Articles

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H. Tracy Hall, Diamond Pioneer

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Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart With Room for Every Joy

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T. rex Protein Was Mere Bacterial Goop?

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The Cola Wars. Smear Campaigns in Space?

Sending astronauts into space takes heaps of cash, hours of political wrangling and the kind of engineering prowess that would make Newton weep

Isidre Nonell, La Paloma, 1904

Learning More About Spanish Modernism

Smith (center) and Carlos (right) raised their arms and Norman wore a badge on his chest in support.

Olympic Athletes Who Took a Stand

For 40 years, Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos have lived with the consequences of their fateful protest

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Growing Up Gambino

Confessions of an alleged Mafia princess

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Who Do You Love?

Bo Diddley's beat changed the course of rock music. And his lyrics evoked a history that reached all the way to Africa

Leopold (top) and Loeb (bottom)

Challenges

To save a wall and understand killers' motives

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Letters

Readers Respond to the June Issue

Smithson: Using “diffusion” as an analogy for education?

From the Castle

Keeping Up

Biographer Wade Davis says Schultes approached photography  with the "same precision as he did botany."

Photo Find

With a rolleiflex camera, a pioneering botanist documented his fieldwork—and created art

U. Utah Phillips was known for his blend of song and storytelling.

Jukebox: Dogged Underdog

Channing (as Lorelei Lee, 1974) recalls taking her first bow in a dress encrusted with 40 pounds of bling: “I fell over forward and almost broke my teeth.”

All That Glitters

Carol Channing can't forget the night her gown got ransomed

Avant-garde performance artist and pop icon Laurie Anderson.

Laurie Anderson

The celebrated performance artist discusses Andy Warhol, NASA and her work at McDonald’s

"Minnesota's" vasectomy was reversed due to his species becoming nearly extinct.

Making History

Role Reversal

Follow the "Guests of the Hills" opening August 23 at the Freer Gallery.

What's Up

Smithsonian exhibitions highlight the secrets of soil, lavish interiors and Chinese landscape paintings

Richard Misrach, Untitled 1132-04, 2004-Misrach says he began to notice how “people group up and leave a sort of comfortable space around them—something that maybe would only be revealed when you stand back to see it.”

Richard Misrach's Ominous Beach Photographs

A new exhibition of oversized photographs by Richard Misrach invites viewers to have fun in the sun. Or does it?

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More With Richard Misrach

The Photographer explains how a series of beach pictures were inspired by the events of September 11

Arthur Allen

Arthur Allen on "A Passion for Tomatoes"

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