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Comings and Goings

To every thing there is a season

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Great Cats

And things of beauty

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Coming to Terms

In the United States and Finland

Ruins in front of the Capitol in Richmond showing some of the destruction caused by a Confederate attempt to burn Richmond.

Battlefields

Casualties mounting on two fronts

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Risky Businesses

On track to take off

Pyramid at El Mirador

Extraordinary Discoveries

In archaeology and medicine

Fort Sumter

A Necessary Conflict

And an opportunity for re-examination

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Less Traveled Roads

In Tahiti and Botswana

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Powers That Be

And when to curtail them

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Editor's Note: Glorious Quests

Impossible dreams and heavenly causes

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Reconsiderations

Botched battles and preconceptions overturned

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Walks of Life

Brass bands and slow travel

Having lost their homes, many Haitians now live in precarious camps.

Aftershocks

Cataclysms and their consequences

Founding editor Edward K. Thompson guided the new magazine through its first decade.

From the Editor: Curveballs at the Un-Magazine

From the first issue 40 years ago, Smithsonian has blazed its own path through the media landscape

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Homes Away

Another side of Kurds and Romans

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Model Moralist

Wayne Wheeler had a mission

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Reorientations

Cowboy Culture and the Universe

The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

Big Digs

Excavations in Ethiopia and Lockport, New York

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Meat and Potatoes

Of carnivores and herbivores

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Misperceptions

Closing in on 40 years

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