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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He was a pirate, a hothead and a lout, but castaway Alexander Selkirkthe author’s ancestor inspired one of the greatest yarns in literature
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Saving Mali’s Migratory Elephants
A new photo library of West Africa’s desert elephants is helping researchers track the dwindling herd and protect their imperiled migration routes.
For photographer Robert Doisneau, finding an openly affectionate couple in the City of Light was as easy as falling in love
The French author’s piquant observations on American gumption and political hypocrisy sound remarkably contemporary 200 years after his birth
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From the Secretary: Guiding Light
New palm-size computers show videos and maps to lead visitors around even to a good cup of joe
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Following a humbling retreat from Lebanon and increasingly at odds with the U.S., the proud Arab nation finds itself at a critical juncture
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Getting Kids to Eat Their Veggies
A Q&A with Alice Waters
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Gregory Colbert’s haunting photographs, exhibited publicly for the first time in the US, hint at an extraordinary bond between us and our fellow creatures
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When these fisher poets gather, nobody brags about the verse that got away
A stroke of astonishing good fortune that even the author’s skeptical father might embrace
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A marauding hog bites the dust in a border dispute between the United States and Britain that fails to turn ugly
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Mexican immigrants are defying expectations in this country-and changing the landscape back home
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