April 2019
Smithsonian magazine delivers trusted and incisive reporting on history, science, nature, culture and travel.
Features
Dinner With the Emperor
We crossed the globe to meet up with Napoleon Bonaparte at the island exile where he spent his last days
America's Second Revolution
A new exhibition tells the surprising story of the long battle for women’s suffrage
Haunted by History
The ghosts of Nazis, French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors still inhabit the grandest hotel on Paris’ famed Left Bank
Time in a Bottle
Madcap chemists are decoding the secrets of booze to recreate age-old vintages in a flash
Departments
Discussion
Readers respond to our March issue
The Myth of Fingerprints
Police today increasingly embrace DNA tests as the ultimate crime-fighting tool. They once felt the same way about fingerprinting
The Heart of a Rivalry
The race to develop the first implantable cardiac machine featured two titans of Texas medicine
Meltdown
Forty years ago, the nation was stunned by the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Middletown, Pennsylvania. Mayor Robert Reid recalls the storm before the calm
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