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The Tragedy of Lucretia, Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1500-1501

Botticelli Comes Ashore

With the purchase of Botticelli’s Death of Lucretia, Isabella Stewart Gardner took American collecting in a new direction

Author of Old Masters, New World Cynthia Saltzman

Q&A: Cynthia Saltzman

The author of Old Masters, New World discusses how 19th century American collectors acquired European masterpieces

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At the National Zoo, Guess Who

We were born on July 17th at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo

The Fresco Fiasco: Smithsonian Scientists Examine the Capitol’s Art

Burmese python

CSI Action Is for the Birds - and Pythons

Calaya gave birth to the Zoo's first male western lowland gorilla in nine years.

Good News/Bad News: The Primate Chapter

A group of boaters make their way down the peaceful Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.

Preserving Silence in National Parks

A Battle Against Noise Aims to Save Our Natural Soundscapes

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A Sculpture’s Crash Landing at the Royal Academy

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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

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