Untold Stories of American History
In 1897, the 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps embarked on a 1,900-mile journey from Montana to Missouri
A 1922 accident sparked the Iowa man’s intractable hiccups, which suddenly subsided in 1990
A new exhibition at the International Spy Museum revisits Operación Jaque, a covert 2008 plot led by the Colombian military
A new Starz series, "Becoming Elizabeth," dramatizes the future queen's controversial relationship with her much-older stepfather, Thomas Seymour
For her latest novel “Horse,” the Pulitzer-prize winning author Geraldine Brooks found inspiration in the Smithsonian collections
For locals and tourists alike, the "International Guild Guide" identified places of refuge in a ruthlessly homophobic society
Untold Stories of American History
Edith Keating survived the Halifax Explosion and eventually took to the skies, marking a path for other women to fly in her wake
A new commission, based on the acclaimed video 'Birthright' by artist Maren Hassenger, explores the legacy of slavery in family history
In the 1930s, Li Shiu Tong's boyfriend, Magnus Hirschfeld, was a prominent defender of gay people. But Li's own research has long been overlooked
Untold Stories of American History
New understandings of how disease spread informed Imogene Rechtin's ill-fated 1910 campaign to ban a universal human practice
Seating was segregated, and the ceremony's only Black speaker was forced to drastically revise his speech to avoid spreading "propaganda"
The Smithsonian’s Chris Browne flew the much-feared F-14, and as a former TOPGUN student, knows well the power of a Navy-trained fighter pilot
Contrary to contemporary claims, Susan B. Anthony and her peers rarely discussed abortion, which only emerged as a key political issue in the 1960s
In the mid-1990s, tens of thousands left in boats or handcrafted floats facing treacherous waters in search of a better life
Untold Stories of American History
Even if her husband was a murderer, a woman in a bad marriage once had few options. Unless she fled to South Dakota
Untold Stories of American History
In early 1945, a six-panel comic in a U.S. pamphlet offered a visceral depiction of the Third Reich's killing machine
Forget what you know from the cartoon. The 19th-century story, now in a new translation, was a rallying cry for universal education and Italian nationhood
An unpublished memoir reveals how the world’s most famous child actress became a star of the environmental movement
One sculptor and his team of artists take on the epic project of conveying the century-old conflict through a massive bronze installation
Around 750,000 people died during the conflict—2.5 percent of the country's population at the time
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