The 1809 treaty that fueled Tecumseh’s war on whites at the Battle of Tippecanoe is on view at the American Indian Museum
What really happened in the trial featured in the new biopic of future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
A new documentary focuses on the incredible story of Frank Brinton
If not for three sparring Virginia delegates, Congress’s power to remove a president would be even more limited than it already is
A glistening Lansdowne Portrait refresh harkens the reopening of "America's Presidents"
The history-making path of the former NBC Nightly News anchor is honored with a Smithsonian Lewis and Clark compass
Stunt pilots, including a young Charles Lindbergh, took willing participants to the skies for (sometimes) death-defying rides
Smithsonian sports curator Eric Jentsch offers a look at her legacy beyond the legendary match
The spectacular play you see today owes a mighty debt to the revolutionary, slam-dunking basketball league
More than any other medium, comics closely followed the narrative arc of the conflict, from support to growing ambivalence
Fifty years after its founding, the Smithsonian's beloved Anacostia Community Museum continues to tell stories heard nowhere else
Scientific methods, rising literacy and an increasingly mobile society were key ingredients for a culinary revolution
In 19th-century New England, the books that taught kids how to read had a Puritanical morbidity to them
From log cabins to Gilded Age mansions, how you lived determined where you belonged
A founder of the NCAA, Walter Camp thought that sport was the cure for the social anxiety facing parents in America's upper class
Political uncertainty and a changing climate converge to forge the park system's biggest challenge yet
Are these priceless artifacts or worthless trinkets? No one knows for sure, but a local art gallery is pitching in to find out
A new ritual speaks to anxieties surrounding the medicalization of childbearing
In his new book, Ted Genoways follows a family farm and the ways they’re impacted by geopolitics
The year the first enslaved Africans were brought to Jamestown is drilled into students’ memories, but overemphasizing this date distorts history
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