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American History

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B-B-B-Billy and the Duke

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It’s a Beautiful Night for a Ballgame

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Smithsonian Events Week of 4/6-10: Samuel Morse, Satellites and Bunnies

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That’s Some Bad Hat, Chuck. (As in Mangione)

Exterior of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Designs for National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Smithsonian Events Week of 3/30-4/03: Spartacus, Walt Disney and Duke Ellington

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March Madness for the Mind at the Smithsonian

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Smithsonian Events Week of 3/23-27: Marcel Duchamp, The Peacock Room and more!

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Smithsonian Weekend Events: March Madness, Moving Images and a Treasure Hunt

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Smithsonian Events Week of March 16-20: March Madness!

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I am Pi: Thoughts on the Ratio of the Circumference of a Circle to Its Diameter

Lincoln's watch is a fine gold timepiece that the 16th president purchased in the 1850s from a Springfield, Illinois jeweler. It has been in the safe custody of the Smithsonian Institution since 1958—a gift from Lincoln's great-grandson Lincoln Isham.

The Civil War

Lincoln’s Pocket Watch Reveals Long-Hidden Message

The Smithsonian opens one of its prized artifacts and a story unfolds

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A Birthday Card to Barbie. Happy 50th!

Guest blogger Jeanne Maglaty, Smithsonian magazine’s copy editor, offers birthday wishes to the all-American doll

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Calling All Chocaholics. Chocolate Symposium at American History

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Smithsonian Events Week of 3/2-3/6/09: Kiwis, Kites and Bendy Straws

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O Say Can You Sing? at American History Museum

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Todd Duncan: We Love You, Porgy

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Super Bowl. Party Time!

We at the ATM blog tirelessly searched the Smithsonian collections and turned up a sweet treat for our readers

The Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln’s Contested Legacy

Great Emancipator or unreconstructed racist? Each generation evokes a different Lincoln. But who was our sixteenth president?

After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause.

The Freedom Riders, Then and Now

Fighting racial segregation in the South, these activists were beaten and arrested. Where are they now, nearly fifty years later?

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