Globalization | smithsonianmag.comhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/globalization/RSS feed for Globalization enThu, 08 May 2025 18:44:29 +0000Locals Thought These Shipwrecks Had Belonged to Pirates. They Turned Out to Be 300-Year-Old Danish Slave Shipshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/locals-thought-these-shipwrecks-had-belonged-to-pirates-they-turned-out-to-be-300-year-old-danish-slave-ships-180986585/The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th centuryThu, 08 May 2025 18:44:29 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/locals-thought-these-shipwrecks-had-belonged-to-pirates-they-turned-out-to-be-300-year-old-danish-slave-ships-180986585/Mexico City Marks 500th Anniversary of the Fall of Tenochtitlánhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mexico-city-marks-500th-anniversary-fall-tenochtitlan-180977794/The events highlight the complex legacy of 300 years of Spanish ruleMon, 24 May 2021 16:52:42 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mexico-city-marks-500th-anniversary-fall-tenochtitlan-180977794/Why the Peace Corps’ Mission Is Needed Now More Than Everhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/peace-corps-60th-birthday-180977461/On its 60th anniversary, a moment of reckoning arrives for the nation's globe-trotting volunteersTue, 20 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/peace-corps-60th-birthday-180977461/Meet the Scientist Studying How Cell Phones Change Societieshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2020/07/21/meet-scientist-studying-how-cellphones-change-societies/"Smartphones embody globalization," says the Smithsonian cultural anthropologist Josh BellFri, 24 Jul 2020 15:46:11 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2020/07/21/meet-scientist-studying-how-cellphones-change-societies/How Globalization Changed the Way We Fight Diseasehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-globalization-changed-way-we-fight-disease-180969222/A new exhibition at the National Museum of Natural History explores the deadly past of global epidemicsMon, 04 Jun 2018 15:13:14 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-globalization-changed-way-we-fight-disease-180969222/