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How Andean Ritual Captures the Flow of Spacetime — How Andean Ritual Captures the Flow of Spacetime

Exploring the similarities and differences between Indigenous and Western cosmologies

Bringing Tissue Paper to Life — Bringing Tissue Paper to Life

Her artwork will be a part of this weekend’s By the People Festival at the Arts and Industries building

How the Smithsonian Got Its Giant Squids — How the Smithsonian Got Its Giant Squids

After a decade on view, these cephalopod specimens have a growing fan base

Civil War CSI: What Bones Tell Us About Bull Run — Civil War CSI: What Bones Tell Us About Bull Run

What the amputated limbs and full skeletons of a Manassas burial pit tell us about wartime surgical practices

Daguerreotype Photos Reflected a Changing America — Daguerreotype Photos Reflected a Changing America

The National Portrait Gallery brings the eerie power of a historic medium into focus

When Paper Clothing Was the Perfect Fit — When Paper Clothing Was the Perfect Fit

A war-weary world needed a new wardrobe, and this cheap, washable attire seemed to rise to the occasion

This Comic Maker Plans to Make Everyone an Artist — This Comic Maker Plans to Make Everyone an Artist

The first annual "By the People Festival" kicks off in the Washington, D.C. area with interactive art, gospel, Jazz, opera and other performances

José Feliciano Soulful National Anthem — José Feliciano Soulful National Anthem

The acclaimed musician offers a moving welcome to the newest U.S. citizens and donates his guitar

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