For an inaugural ball, a victim of war created an evening bag for the First Lady of a war hero
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This printer, scientist and ambassador early formed a plan for himself and for the country he helped to found
It’s the star-spangled banner; the anthem it inspired plays on as a musical salute to the stars and stripes
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Capturing America’s Fight for Freedom
Smithsonian experts help the makers of Mel Gibson’s new movie, The Patriot, create scenes and bring the conflict’s many factions into sharper focus
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George Mason: Forgotten Founder, He Conceived the Bill of Rights
This wise Virginian was a friend to four future presidents, yet he refused to sign the Constitution
The author, who according to family legend is a direct descendant of Myles Standish, surveys the checkered career of his pugnacious Pilgrim ancestor
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A Tale of Fatal Feuds and Futile Forensics
A Smithsonian anthropologist digs for victims of a West Virginia mob murder
Picturing the American Century
As the 1900s slip away, New York’s Whitney Museum recalls the artists and images that made these years uniquely ours
An image at the National Portrait Gallery may be the truest account we have of the Indian princess
Even in the computer age, a thousand-ton train driven by fire and water inspires awe
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Old style ballots cast illegally in Indiana helped topple a president then he helped topple them
Preserving the Star-Spangled Banner reflects our ongoing effort to establish a more perfect union
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Bertram and Nina Little spent six decades amassing folk art that captures a corner of American history
The Smithsonian embarks on an ambitious project to preserve the Star-Spangled Banner
In Vermont, a Valiant Stand for Freedom
At Mount Independence, heroic Americans held off the British in a confrontation that changed the course of the Revolutionary War
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Life came hard for people like historian Lonnie Bunch’s ancestors; he strives to commemorate them
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In 1918, a hopeful France gave Mrs. Wilson a peace brooch, but peace eluded her husband and the world
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