In Vilnius, Lithuania, preservationists are creating a living memorial to the nation’s 225,000 Holocaust victims
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The Vikings: A Memorable Visit to America
The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas
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A new museum celebrates the Underground Railroad, the secret network of people who bravely led slaves to liberty before the Civil War
For more than a decade, American Robert Graf has combed the waters of a Seychelles island for a multimillion-dollar booty stashed by pirates 300 years ago
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How 260 Tons of Thanksgiving Leftovers Gave Birth to an Industry
The birth of the TV dinner started with a mistake
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Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and the Election of 1800
For seven days, as the two presidential candidates maneuvered and schemed, the fate of the young republic hung in the ballots
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A new exhibition explores the personal dimensions of war: valor and resolve—but also sacrifice and loss
A North Vietnamese battlefield defeat that led to victory, the Tet Offensive still triggers debate nearly four decades later
The fanciful design of the Smithsonian Castle150 years old in Decemberbucked the neo-classical trend of Washington’s other monuments and buildings
Introducing a new department and the editor who runs it
En route to Vietnam in the 1960s, American G.I.’s recorded their hopes and fears on the canvas undersides of troopship sleeping berths
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Digging for Jefferson’s Lost Courthouse
Archaeologists in Virginia found the footprint of a red brick building lost in the mid-19th century
A century and a half ago, Britain’s Roger Fenton pioneered the art of war photography
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When Major Leaguer Eddie Grant Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
The Harvard-trained lawyer and professional baseball player Eddie Grant volunteered to serve in World War I. He fought as he’d played: selflessly
What if Lincoln had lost, or if Theodore Roosevelt had won? How did Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan emerge to lead a dispirited nation?
Tolstoy Does “Oprah”
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“Your Show of Shows,” starring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, pioneered madcap TV humor in the 1950s
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They fled terror in Laos after secretly aiding American forces in the Vietnam War. Now 200,000 Hmong prosper-and struggle-in the United States
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Francis Scott Key, the Reluctant Patriot
The Washington lawyer was an unlikely candidate to write the national anthem; he was against America’s entry into the War of 1812 from the outset
The new National Museum of the American Indian is a proud expression of Native American beliefs
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