CURRENT ISSUE
February 2005
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/3b/ba/3bbada56-405b-4e58-b301-2a17c8e867d5/smithmag-evergreen-banner-1300x290-0823_1.jpg)
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/76/4f/764fa73f-7aa3-4b73-9c86-92e3d3f84cc5/smithmag-evergreen-homepage-mobile-0823.jpg)
Features
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/sicily_alliata.jpg)
Sicily Resurgent
Across the island, activists, archaeologists and historians are joining forces to preserve a cultural legacy that has endured for 3,000 years
Invasion of the Snakeheads
The voracious "Frankenfish" has turned up in the Potomac River, Lake Michigan and a California lake, sparking fears of an ecological Armageddon
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/pie_whinery.jpg)
Savoring Pie Town
Sixty-five years after Russell Lee photographed New Mexico homesteaders coping with the Depression, a Lee admirer visits the town for a fresh slice of life
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/10/9f/109f713f-2d11-4657-84ee-b1044e6f08ca/1200px-southwest_corner_of_central_park_looking_east_nyc.jpg)
Christo Does Central Park
After a quarter century's effort, the wrap artist and his wife, Jeanne-Claude, blaze a saffron trail in New York City
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/uganda_walk_388.jpg)
Uganda: The Horror
In Uganda, tens of thousands of children have been abducted, 1.6 million people herded into camps and thousands of people killed
Out of the Shadows
African-American architect Julian Abele is finally getting recognition for his contributions to some of 20th-century America's most prestigious buildings
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/afghan_8.jpg)
Assignment Afghanistan
From keeping tabs on the Taliban to saving puppies, a reporter looks back on her three years covering a nation's struggle to be reborn
/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/e5/f1/e5f163dc-a520-4f08-86cb-28dcadeade4d/looking_met-wr.jpg)
Departments
Down In Mississippi
The shooting of protester James Meredith 38 years ago, searingly documented by a rookie photographer, galvanized the civil rights movement
Back Home On The Range
When a group of Native Americans took up bison ranching, they brought a prairie back to life
Trouble Spots
Two of our writers get into the thick of things in Uganda and Afghanistan
Our Adaptable Ancestors
Recent discoveries of skull fragments and tools testify to the resourcefulness of early humans
A Fine Boy
With a little help from a rattlesnake's rattle, Sacagawea gives birth to a baby she names Jean Baptiste