Articles

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Have Canine, Will Travel

Our fur-flung correspondents in dogged pursuit

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Review of 'The Worst Hard Time'

The untold story of those who survived the great American Dust Bowl

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Edvard Munch: Beyond The Scream

Though the Norwegian artist is known for a single image, he was one of the most prolific, innovative and influential figures in modern art

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The Power of Prayer

A news photographer in India captures a devotional moment that goes back a thousand years

Munich, Germany

Bone Voyage

On assignment with Europe's most peripatetic canine

The Smithsonian Castle

Field Trip!

Education experts help children, their teachers, parents and grandparents get the most out of a museum visit - real or virtual

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Secrets of the Range Creek Ranch

Archaeologists cheered when Waldo Wilcox's spread was deeded to the state of Utah, believing that it holds keys to a tribe that flourished - then vanished

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March Anniversaries

Momentous or merely memorable

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Spain Makes a Stand

After more than 400 years, a fort built by conquistadors in the Carolinas has finally been found

Coyotes in densely populated areas (a Los Angeles suburb) can be alarming. But wildlife experts say they fill a niche in the urban ecology.

City Slinkers

Why are coyotes, those cunning denizens of the plains and rural west, moving into urban centers like Chicago and Washington DC?

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Panther Key

Everglades

The nation's storied wetland is the focus of the world's largest environmental restoration project. But will that be enough?

Ray Charles' Ray-Bans, his celebrity trademark, are held in the collections of the National Museum of American History.

Ray Charles' Fusion of Gospel and Blues Changed the Face of American Popular Music

A visionary virtuoso, Charles made brilliance look easy

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Austria

Mozart: In Search of the Roots of Genius

On the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, the author scours Salzburg and Vienna for traces of the master's mischievous spirit

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Worlds Apart

Change and constance on sceptered isles

Hojaldres

Bilingual By Breakfast

Only one thing stood between the author and the hojaldras of her desire

The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World

Every Book Its Reader

The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World, by Nicholas A. Basbanes

Clarke was an "admirer of beauty," said the folklorist Henry Shoemaker, and he "singled out many lovely mountain girls with his lens." This haunting idyllic interpretation of two girls, presumable sisters, is marred only by some damage to the glass plate negative.

Forgotten Forest

Photographic plates discovered in a dusty shed offer an astonishing look at life in the American woods more than a century ago

"Last Days of Pompeii" depicts an artist's rendering of the catastrophic final hours of Pompeii as the citizens were buried alive in ash.

Resurrecting Pompeii

A new exhibition brings the doomed residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum vividly to life

Villagers on the island of Tanna dance in John Frum's honor each February 15. Clan leaders first saw their Yankee Messiah in the late 1930s. He later appeared to them during WWII, dressed in white like the unidentified navy seaman.

In John They Trust

South Pacific villagers worship a mysterious American they call John Frum - believing he'll one day shower their remote island with riches

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