A new series dramatizes Edwin Stanton's hunt for John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators in the aftermath of the president’s 1865 assassination
The inaugural exhibition at the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum seeks to shine light on lesser-known historical figures
Princess Dashkova led research institutes, wrote plays and music, and embarked on a Grand Tour of 18th-century Europe
Mohammed V defied the collaborationist Vichy regime, saving Morocco's 250,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi death camps
Mildred and Patty Hill wrote the popular song's melody, but their contributions to American culture have long been overlooked
Newspapers and magazines across the United States published weekly columns debunking lurid claims that were detrimental to the war effort
The town’s historic hotel magnifies its mastery of the macabre with a chilling new attraction
Aristocrats plotted to kill the Siberian peasant, who wielded undue influence over Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. But the conspiracy backfired, hastening the coming Russian Revolution
Mario Van Peebles' "Outlaw Posse" is the latest attempt to correct the erasure of people of color from the classic cinema genre
Documenting episodes of the phenomenon thousands of years ago may help us predict damaging solar storms in the future
In 1990, scholars found a Sierra Leonean woman who remembered a nearly identical version of a tune passed down by a Georgia woman’s enslaved ancestors
A new adaptation offers a fresh take on James Clavell's 1975 novel, which fictionalizes the stories of English sailor William Adams, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Japanese noblewoman Hosokawa Gracia
A new anthology identifies frustration as a recurring theme in journals written between 1599 and 2015
Smithsonian Photo Contest Galleries
To mark the February heritage month, these images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest offer proof that African American history is timeless
Mary Cardwell Dawson created unprecedented opportunities for aspiring Black musicians
Two historians tell us why the pioneering 19th-century feminist, suffragist and abolitionist’s legacy has so frequently been misrepresented
Untold Stories of American History
Denied burial alongside Union soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg, the 30 or so men were instead buried in the all-Black Lincoln Cemetery
Historian Camilla Townsend separates fact from fiction in the life of the Powhatan "princess"
A Smithsonian curator and a historian discuss the links between the Johnson-Reed Act and Executive Order 9066, which rounded up 120,000 Japanese Americans in camps across the Western U.S.
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