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Congress Couldn’t Have Been This Bad, or Could It?
If you think things are pretty messy on Capitol Hill today, just take a look at what was going on up there a century and a half ago
Pliny’s World: All the Facts and Then Some
In A.D. 77 a workaholic called Pliny the Elder published the first encyclopedia, Natural History. Headless people were among the many marvels
Smithsonian Perspectives
As the Institution grows in size and complexity, we are proceeding to decentralize and revitalize its parts
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An Editor’s Note
A book from Smithsonian’s editor recounts tales of writers and wars, photographers and Presidents, and the experiences of life in journalism
The Object at Hand
The story behind the Smithsonian’s display tiger leads back into tiger history, man-eating and otherwise, and back to the fact that tigers are endangered
The Granddaddy of the Nation’s Trails Began in Mexico
The Camino Real, after languishing in the shadow of the Santa Fe, the Oregon and the California trails, is finally getting its due
Las Vegas Meets La-la Land
Inside its surreal new superhotels, the city synonymous with glitz is taking fantasy to the max and creating an escapist mecca
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A Year-End Night of Magic in This Cuban Hill Town
Was Zulueta a place of memory or of myth? When a journalist returns to his ancestral home to find out, the fireworks cast a spell
The Object at Hand
There was a time when a cane was the exclamation point to a gentleman’s attire, but canes have also been put to a remarkable range of uses
Steam Locomotives Steal the Spotlight
Photographer O. Winston Link documented the final days of steam engines on the Norfolk and Western Railway, the last main line to use them
I Lost a Baby, and When I Got Him Back He Was a Toddler
The child was returned thanks in large part to a national clearinghouse that employs the latest technology to locate missing kids
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A Film Buff Cheers the Oldies, Calling for Silents, Please!
Garbo, Chaplin, Keaton yesteryear’s screen giants dazzle audiences anew at Pordenone, the world’s most pretigious silent-film festival
Winslow Homer, the Quintessential American Artist
He would chronicle it all the Civil War, the schoolyard games, the raging coast of Maine yet the man remained a mystery to the end
It Comes Out Only Once a Week, But the Sun Never Sets
Can a weekly paper in rural New Mexico raise enough hell to keep its readers hungry for more, issue after issue? Don’t ask
Smithsonian Perspectives
The National Zoo and its branch, the CRC, pioneer conservation biology and seek new ways of support
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