History

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Smithsonian Perspectives

The National Zoo and its branch, the CRC, pioneer conservation biology and seek new ways of support

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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

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Around the Mall & Beyond

To teach science, says the ten-year-old National Science Resources Center, there is nothing better than getting young hands on simple experiments

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Smithsonian Perspectives

Exhibits at the National Museum of American History commemorate our diverse World War II experiences

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When he saw how well it was preserved, he thought: Why not just fly it out of here?

Actually, there were a lot of reasons, but that didn't prevent Darryl Greenamyer from wrenching an old warplane out of its grave

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Strang the Strange: America's Only King

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En Garde! Maybe M. Emile Was a Lousy Hairdresser, But He Gave His Place Tone

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The Dying Tecumseh and the Birth of a Legend

A sculpture in the Smithsonian collection reveals much about how the Indians of the West were viewed in the early ages of the United States

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Around the Mall & Beyond

The Smithsonian Associates have a 'national treasure' in their midst, but shhh, don't tell...

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Smithsonian Perspectives

As part of our 150th-anniversary celebration, we're going to take 150 museum treasures on the road

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One Thousand and One Ways of Saying Uncle

Sam meddles shamelessly in U.S. politics and carries on with Miss Liberty, but nobody knows for sure exactly where he came from

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It's Hard to Believe One Man Held Sway Over All This Land

But it's true. In the mid-1800s Lucien Maxwell, a dauntless former mountain man, ruled a huge chunk of New Mexico and lower Colorado

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Around the Mall & Beyond

In 1939 Moritz Schoenberger, a Hungarian Jew living in Vienna, wanted to join his family in America. His ordeal is told at the National Postal Museum

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Smithsonian Perspectives

The Festival of American Folklife is a popular model for presenting grass-roots culture to the public

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'America Beats By Far Anything,' Said the Ex-POW

In WWII, thousands of captive Germans found our prison camps so hospitable that they later became U.S. citizens

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The Soap Box Derby

The Soap Box Derby, a peculiarly American institution, thrives on the U.S. teenage passion for anything that has four wheels and goes fast

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The Spirited Story of the Psychic and the Colonel

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Chris Evans vs. the Southern Pacific

He's not well known today, but a century ago this unpredictable train robber and killer was sensational front-page news in California

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Gifts of Remembrance at the Wall

Near the base of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, comrades and loved ones leave their poignant tokens of remembrance

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25 Years of Looking for the Unexpected

Over the past quarter-century, the magazine has published more than 2,000 major articles

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