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Smithsonian experts help the makers of Mel Gibson's new movie, The Patriot, create scenes and bring the conflict's many factions into sharper focus
It's the star-spangled banner; the anthem it inspired plays on as a musical salute to the stars and stripes
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This wise Virginian was a friend to four future presidents, yet he refused to sign the Constitution
As an inspired observer of landscapes urban and rural, historian John Stilgoe teaches us all to see with new eyes
The first modern war correspondent, Richard Harding Davis covered the first modern wars
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A Smithsonian anthropologist digs for victims of a West Virginia mob murder
The author, who according to family legend is a direct descendant of Myles Standish, surveys the checkered career of his pugnacious Pilgrim ancestor
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The Federal Writers' Project gave Depression-era writers a second chance...and America its first comprehensive self-portrait
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As underwater archaeologists pull artifacts from what may be the wreck of Blackbeard's flagship, historians raise new questions about the legendary pirate
In Washington County, Vermont, prosecutors face mounting caseloads, looming deadlines and ongoing drama
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From finance to feathers, Secretary Lawrence M. Small brings diverse talents to the Smithsonian
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An enigmatic button once decorated the uniform of Haitian liberator Toussaint Louverture
A risky experiment reveals how medieval engines of war brought down castle walls
Pete Sampras and the Williams sisters play tennis. The author and his fancy French friends prefer its ancestor
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