Remembering the sound and fury—and the joy—of the end of World War II
From the beginning, the cost of increasing and diffusing knowledge exceeded even Smithson’s generosity
As the corps finally makes contact with the Shoshone Indians, interpreter Sacagawea reunites with her family
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Recent attacks on people off the Florida coast are a reminder of the animal’s fierce nature. Yet scientists say the predator is itself in grave danger
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Americans discard more than 100 million electronic devices each year. As “e-waste” piles up, so does concern about this growing threat to the environment
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A book about atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer charts the debate over deployment of the first A-bomb and the anxiety that suffused its first live test
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The image of Bruce McCandless’ spacewalk two decades ago still amazes. It was the first untethered walk everand was among the last
How did the ivory-billed woodpecker, which was feared extinct, hang on all these years?
How a cultivated dislike of gardening can lead to more time on the porch
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How a stranded cub became the living symbol for one of America’s best-known advertising campaigns
A pop-music confection known as The Village People belted out disco hits in the 1970s that morphed into American standards
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Each summer models decked out in period dress give artists a picture of life in the Wild West
On the trail of art thieves and elusive elephants
She bought the electric drill to get a tidier household. Then she found out about the secret sisterhood
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SMITHSONIAN’s second annual photo contest generates more than 30,000 entries
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Ripped from the Walls (and the Headlines)
Fifteen years after the greatest art theft in modern history the mystery may be unraveling
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Near Portland, Oregon, archaeologists and Indians have built an authentic Chinookan plankhouse like those Lewis and Clark saw
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A look back at the world in Smithsonian Magazine’s first year
Needing horses and a route across the Rockies, the corps must find Sacagawea’s people or risk the fate of the expedition
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Preservation or Development at Morris Island?
On this site where the nation’s legendary African-American fighting force proved its valor in the Civil War, a housing development ignited a debate
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