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Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and the Election of 1800
For seven days, as the two presidential candidates maneuvered and schemed, the fate of the young republic hung in the ballots
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When Luna, a people-loving orca, chose Vancouver Island’s Nootka Sound for his home, he set in motion a drama of leviathan proportions
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Researchers make an annual pilgrimage to Twinsburg, Ohio, to study inherited traits
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Northwest of Seattle, an overly friendly orca polarizes a community
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The artist’s groundbreaking Les Demoiselles d’Avignon gets a face lift from experts at New York’s Museum of Modern Art
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Threatened by megastores and a shuttered local chain, a Wyoming town revives Main Street by giving power to the people
What if Lincoln had lost, or if Theodore Roosevelt had won? How did Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan emerge to lead a dispirited nation?
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When Major Leaguer Eddie Grant Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
The Harvard-trained lawyer and professional baseball player Eddie Grant volunteered to serve in World War I. He fought as he’d played: selflessly
A century and a half ago, Britain’s Roger Fenton pioneered the art of war photography
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Digging for Jefferson’s Lost Courthouse
Archaeologists in Virginia found the footprint of a red brick building lost in the mid-19th century
En route to Vietnam in the 1960s, American G.I.’s recorded their hopes and fears on the canvas undersides of troopship sleeping berths
Introducing a new department and the editor who runs it
The fanciful design of the Smithsonian Castle150 years old in Decemberbucked the neo-classical trend of Washington’s other monuments and buildings
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A disastrous chain of events nearly wiped out California’s diminutive island fox. Scientists hope it’s not too late to undo the damage
Microscope jockeys from around the world enter their masterpieces in an annual art show
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At six million acres, New York’s funky wilderness preserve, one of America’s largest refuges, is also one of the most alluring. An aficionado explains why
Far from being a wasteland of ice and snow, the world’s most remote region is alive with history, color and life
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For whistle-stop campaigning or just rolling down memory lane, nothing could be finer than your own railroad car
Lee Bontecou’s Brave New World
A star of the 1960s art scene returns with a triumphant exhibition of futuristic works
An eccentric photographer and a racehorse made history one day in 1878. The world would never look the same
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