Articles

A Traveling Exhibition On Women Photographers Doesn’t Skirt the Issue

March 1997

Smithsonian Highlights

March 1997

The Grave at Vukovar

A war crimes tribunal sent forensic scientists to investigate mass graves in the former Yugoslavia. What happened there?

March 1, 1997

A Stout Ship’s Heartbreaking Ordeal by Ice

Heading north for the pole, the Jeannette was frozen fast for 21 months, then sank; for captain and crew, that was the easy part

March 1, 1997

A Family, a Colony, a Life of Good Works in the Holy City

Founded more than a century ago, the American Colony in Jerusalem has endured hardships, wars, upheaval, and the ebb and flow of empires

March 1, 1997

The Object at Hand

A bejeweled box from a sorely beset emperor leads to a Yankee dentist, and how he rescued the beautiful empress Eugénie from a Paris mob

March 1997

Unearthing Secrets Locked Deep Inside Each Fistful of Soil

To scientists at the National Soil Tilth Lab in Ames, Iowa, it’s not just dirt they are probing — it’s the planet’s sustaining surface

March 1, 1997

Not Your Average Backyard Gardener

Ganna Walska pursued life with a passion, from husbands to opera to plants. Her legacy is Lotusland, an exotic California garden

March 1, 1997

An Orphanage for Some Big Babies

Daphne Sheldrick has turned her Nairobi home into a nursery and rehabilitation center for infant elephants who have lost their families

March 1997

Around the Mall & Beyond

An all-day Saturday seminar on spices - one of the many programs on the Mall, around the world, even in cyberspace, offered by the Smithsonian Associates

March 1997

If Rocks Were Worth Money, a Hilltop Farmer Could Get Rich Quick

March 1997

Smithsonian Perspectives

The Smithsonian takes its experts and scholars on the road in its new Voices of Discovery program

March 1997

For Jacques Torres, the Highest Art Is a Piece of Cake

Sugar in all forms seduces our sweet tooth from the first taste, but in the hands of a premiere pastry chef it becomes magical

February 1, 1997

“She Said Yes! She Said Yes! She Said Yes!”

How a few brave and smitten souls got up the courage to declare their love and propose in public, and then lived to tell about it

February 1, 1997

Picturing the Face of the African Diaspora

February 1997

Think of All You’d Miss If Your Reading Skills Weren’t ‘Enhanced’ By Age

Think of all you’d miss if your reading skills weren’t ‘enhanced’ by age

February 1997

Cleopatra: What Kind of a Woman Was She, Anyway?

Serpent of the Nile? Learned ruler? Sex Kitten? Ambitious mom? African queen? History is still toying with the poor lady’s reputation

February 1997

Vintage Radios By the Score

Tucked into an Elgin, Illinois, office building, Ralph Muchow’s Historical Radio Museum houses the world’s foremost antique collection

February 1, 1997

Smithsonian Perspectives

As financial demands soar, the Institution seeks corporate dollars while safeguarding its integrity

February 1997

When Uncle Sam’s “Fish Cops” Reel in a Suspect, He’s Usually a Keeper

Agents of the National Marine Fisheries Service often work undercover gathering the evidence needed to make arrests stick

February 1, 1997