At the King Arthur Flour Company, folks have helped us produce the perfect loaf of bread since 1790
An election year exhibition proudly hails the chiefs
Re-created at the Smithsonian, the White House’s Cross Hall tells a tale of changing styles
Not always. Money in America has gone from crops to bullion to greenbacks to electronic markers igniting political and economic crises along the way
Eighty-six years ago the Serbian teenager shot an Archduke and set Europe on the road to World War I. Today he is all but forgotten
When a handful of senior citizens revisit the school they attended years ago, they become children again
Capturing America’s Fight for Freedom
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
George Mason: Forgotten Founder, He Conceived the Bill of Rights
This wise Virginian was a friend to four future presidents, yet he refused to sign the Constitution
Reading the Messages in Everyday Things
As an inspired observer of landscapes urban and rural, historian John Stilgoe teaches us all to see with new eyes
When War Called, Davis Answered
The first modern war correspondent, Richard Harding Davis covered the first modern wars
A Tale of Fatal Feuds and Futile Forensics
A Smithsonian anthropologist digs for victims of a West Virginia mob murder
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