American History
Take an Interactive Tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
What to expect when you visit the Smithsonian’s newest museum
Eleven Years After Katrina, What Lessons Can We Learn Before the Next Disaster Strikes?
Author and playwright John Biguenet offers his thoughts on the narrative of destruction
Help Crowdsource the History of Wine
The University of California, Davis, is looking for online volunteers to help catalog and describe 5,200 wine labels
Inside the Upcoming Memorial and Museum Dedicated to Lynching Victims
Spanning slavery to segregation to mass incarceration
Explore Johnny Cash’s Tennessee Ranch-Turned Museum
Complete with a car built “one piece at a time”
Five Places Where Confederate Monuments Have Recently Disappeared (or Soon Will)
Vanderbilt University's decision to rename a building to "Memorial Hall" is just one of many ongoing efforts
Explorers Find Second Oldest Shipwreck in the Great Lakes
The merchant sloop <i>Washington</i> went down in a storm in 1803 on Lake Ontario
The History of the American West Gets a Much-Needed Rewrite
Artists, historians and filmmakers alike have been guilty of creating a mythologized version of the U.S. expansion to the west
The Unusual Origins of Pink Lemonade
It’s a pretty scary story. It does involve clowns, after all
Tourists in Hawaii Accidentally Discovered Ancient Petroglyphs
A stroke of luck on the beach
An Insect Could Make Ash Baseball Bats a Thing of the Past
The invasive emerald ash borer is threatening the forests where Rawlings and Louisville Sluggers come from, putting the bats in jeopardy
For Sale: 400 Awesome Vintage Boomboxes
A New Zealand aficionado is auctioning off his collection of iconic 1980s music machines
How the Abduction of Patty Hearst Made Her an Icon of the 1970s Counterculture
A new book places a much-needed modern-day lens on the kidnapping that captivated the nation
How the American Civil War Built Egypt’s Vaunted Cotton Industry and Changed the Country Forever
The battle between the U.S. and the Confederacy affected global trade in astonishing ways
Watch the Chincoteague Ponies Complete Their 91st Annual Swim
For nine decades, the local fire department has herded the horses from Assateague to Chincoteague Island to auction off the foals
How Do Smithsonian Curators Decide What to Collect at the Political Conventions?
For Smithsonian’s Lisa Kathleen Graddy and Jon Grinspan, it’s trying to guess what people of the future will want to know about 2016
Walmart Once Pulled a Shirt That Said “Someday a Woman Will Be President” From Its Shelves
While Hillary Clinton was living in the White House, no less
Sarah Winnemucca Devoted Her Life to Protecting Native Americans in the Face of an Expanding United States
The 19th-century visionary often found herself stuck between two cultures
Why Ancestral Puebloans Honored People With Extra Digits
New research shows having extra toes or fingers was a revered trait among people living in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The White House Was, in Fact, Built by Enslaved Labor
Along with the Capitol and other iconic buildings in Washington, D.C.
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