Some promising endeavors on Pacific islands
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Waging Peace in the Philippines
With innovative tactics, U.S. forces make headway in the “war on terror”
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A riverboat’s telltale contents included 133-year-old pickles. Want one?
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When self-taught archaeologists dug up an 1850s steamboat, they brought to light a slice of American life
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Scholars in the fabled African city, once a great center of learning and trade, are racing to save a still emerging cache of ancient manuscripts
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An Interview with William E. Leuchtenburg, author of “New Faces of 1946”
William E. Leuchtenburg discusses the 1946 elections and how politics have changed
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Momentous or Merely Memorable
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A fabled aircraft carrier sunk deliberately off the coast of Florida is the world’s largest artificial reef
Momentous or merely memorable
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A scheming stepmother or a strong and effective ruler? History’s view of the pharaoh Hatshepsut changed over time
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Interview with Elizabeth Wilson, Author of “The Queen Who Would Be King”
Wilson discusses what drew her to study the pharaoh, and Hatshepsut’s enduring allure
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The first tomb to be discovered in the Valley of the Kings since King Tut’s is raising questions for archaeologists about ancient Egypt’s burial practices
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From the writing of the New Testament to the filming of The Da Vinci Code, her image has been repeatedly conscripted, contorted and contradicted
When the Aztec and Maya played it 500 to 1,000 years ago, the losers sometimes lost their headsliterally
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Momentous or merely memorable
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Odyssey’s End?: The Search for Ancient Ithaca
A British researcher believes he has at last pinpointed the island to which Homer’s wanderer returned
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How an Egyptian student came to study 1950s America and left determined to wage holy war
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Photojournalist Chris Hondros, recently killed in Libya, discussed his work in war-torn Liberia with Smithsonian in 2006
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A new exhibition brings the doomed residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum vividly to life
Momentous or merely memorable
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