/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/pie_whinery.jpg)
Sixty-five years after Russell Lee photographed New Mexico homesteaders coping with the Depression, a Lee admirer visits the town for a fresh slice of life
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/uganda_walk_388.jpg)
In Uganda, tens of thousands of children have been abducted, 1.6 million people herded into camps and thousands of people killed
African-American architect Julian Abele is finally getting recognition for his contributions to some of 20th-century America’s most prestigious buildings
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/afghan_8.jpg)
From keeping tabs on the Taliban to saving puppies, a reporter looks back on her three years covering a nation’s struggle to be reborn
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/b8/bb/b8bb284f-dc23-49cb-8a03-effca205eefd/1280px-james_meredith_olemiss.jpg)
The shooting of protester James Meredith 38 years ago, searingly documented by a rookie photographer, galvanized the civil rights movement
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/object_ruby.jpg)
A rare Burmese ruby memorializes a philanthropic woman
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/03/4d/034d29ce-fd5c-4e8f-be66-e06681244adb/1200px-sacagawea_statue_from_gastons_centennial_history_of_oregon.png)
With a little help from a rattlesnake’s rattle, Sacagawea gives birth to a baby she names Jean Baptiste
Momentous or merely memorable
The voracious “Frankenfish” has turned up in the Potomac River, Lake Michigan and a California lake, sparking fears of an ecological Armageddon
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/phenomena_bison-388.jpg)
When a group of Native Americans took up bison ranching, they brought a prairie back to life
Recent discoveries of skull fragments and tools testify to the resourcefulness of early humans
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/sicily_alliata.jpg)
Across the island, activists, archaeologists and historians are joining forces to preserve a cultural legacy that has endured for 3,000 years
Two of our writers get into the thick of things in Uganda and Afghanistan
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/cabin_village.jpg)
As Muscovites get rich on oil, dachas, the rustic country houses that nourish the Russian soul, get gaudy
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/virtuoso_img2.jpg)
Following a debilitating stroke, the incomparable jazz pianist Oscar Peterson had to start over
The author of the Life of Samuel Johnson spent much of his own life trying to escape the country of his birth
A new exhibition probes the contradictions of an advanced civilization that practiced human sacrifice
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/jamestown_digging.jpg)
America’s first permanent colonists have been considered incompetent. But new evidence suggests that it was a drought—not indolence—that almost did them in
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/39/97/3997541b-fdc1-4782-83b3-8e954b59b0ac/br_vietnam_1973_pow_homecoming_file_03.jpg)
To a war-weary nation, a U.S. POW’s return from captivity in Vietnam in 1973 looked like the happiest of reunions
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/16/34/1634f369-fc0c-4537-a169-395595f6d597/1200px-new_philadelphia_townsite.jpg)
Founded by a freed slave, an Illinois town was a rare example of biracial cooperation before the Civil War
Page 1248 of 1332