American History

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Events: Easter Monday, Guitar Workshop, Earth Day and More!

During the era of horse-drawn railroads, workers filled in a ravine at Duffy's Cut.

Ireland's Forgotten Sons Recovered Two Centuries Later

In Pennsylvania, amateur archaeologists unearth a mass grave of immigrant railroad workers who disappeared in 1832

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Events: Honoring Elvis, a Kimono Fashion Show, Fun with Nanotechnology and More!

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Events: Women Inventors, Walking in Space, Quilting and More!

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Environmental Film Festival Roundup

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Meet Mrs. Obama's Inaugural Jewelry Designer Loree Rodkin

"You've called the wrong jewelry designer," was Rodkin's first thought when she got the call to do Michelle Obama's inaugural earrings, ring and bracelets

Michelle Obama in her inaugural gown.

Michelle Obama's Inaugural Ball Dress Comes to the Smithsonian

In 1903, a barge called the Harold tipped somewhere off the coast of New York City, sending most of its 7,700 silver-and-lead bars to the bottom.

The Search for the Guggenheim Treasure

Loot valued at $20 million lies off the coast of Staten Island, and Ken Hayes is on the hunt for the sunken silver bullion

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Weekend Events: Black History Month Family Celebration, Glass Artist Karen LaMonte, and the Zoo's Wild Side Stage

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30th Anniversary of the Miracle on Ice

The men's hockey team shocked the world

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Events: Founding Fathers, Civil Rights Activists and Gershwin's Porgy

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Events: How To Build a Building, Remember Japanese Internment and Celebrate Civil Rights

May Asaki Ishimoto became one of the country's most established ballet wardrobe mistresses.

The Story of a Ballet Wardrobe Mistress

The precise stitchwork of May Asaka Ishimoto, a second generation Japanese American who survived two years in an internment camp

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Events: Celebrate Black History Month With Art and Science's Best and Brightest

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Events: African American Patriots, Firefighter Memorabilia and Getting to Know Phoebe Greenberg

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Weekend Events: Celebrate the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr., Storytelling and More

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Have You Hugged Your Computer Today?

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Indian Ledger Drawings at the American History Museum

Britain's leaders made a miscalculation when they assumed that resistance from the colonies, as the Earl of Dartmouth predicted, could not be "very formidable."

Myths of the American Revolution

A noted historian debunks the conventional wisdom about America's War of Independence

"Here is business enough for you," Gage told the first doctor to treat him after a premature detonation on a railroad-building site turned a tamping iron into a missile.

Phineas Gage: Neuroscience's Most Famous Patient

An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history's most famous brain-injury survivor

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