While most members of Congress sought a negotiated settlement with England, independence advocates bided their time
An exhibition of ancient Maya art points up the opulence and violence of the great Mesoamerican civilization
After decades of intense research, the ancient ruins of Mexico and Central America are yielding new insights into the pre-Columbia culture
A Rockefeller's rules for raising responsible children
During a civil rights march in 1965, photographer Bruce Davidson left the highway to focus on a single Alabama sharecropper and her nine children
After the Revolutionary War, ships from a little Massachusetts seaport brought the new nation wares from China and the mysterious East
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How a Kentucky grifter and his partner pulled off one of the era's most spectacular scams -- until a dedicated man of science exposed their scheme
The corps begins its epic journey
Momentous or merely memorable
For the dedication of a new World War II memorial on the Mall, the Smithsonian will stage a four-day festival of reminiscence
As America's first black military pilots, Tuskegee airmen faced a battle against racism
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One hundred fifty years ago, the Kansas-Nebraska Act set the stage for America's civil war
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In 1908, an improbable pair of music men hit a tuneful home run without ever having seen a game
Who built them and why? An amateur archaeologist tries to get to the bottom of some astonishing structures in Tibet and Sichuan Province, China
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An artifact from the doomed ocean liner evokes that catastrophic night in April 1912
A Vietnam War protester recalls a seminal '60s image, part of a new book celebrating French photographer Marc Riboud's 50-year career
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From our archives: How the republic’s troubled history set the stage for future discord and a possible new Cold War
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John Lee Hancock's epic re-creation of the 1836 battle between Mexican forces and Texas insurgents casts the massacre in a more historically accurate light
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Since the Smithsonian's earliest days, the help of volunteers has been essential
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