Fifteen years after the greatest art theft in modern history the mystery may be unraveling
Near Portland, Oregon, archaeologists and Indians have built an authentic Chinookan plankhouse like those Lewis and Clark saw
A look back at the world in Smithsonian Magazine's first year
Needing horses and a route across the Rockies, the corps must find Sacagawea's people or risk the fate of the expedition
On this site where the nation's legendary African-American fighting force proved its valor in the Civil War, a housing development ignited a debate
He was a pirate, a hothead and a lout, but castaway Alexander Selkirkthe author's ancestor inspired one of the greatest yarns in literature
A new photo library of West Africa's desert elephants is helping researchers track the dwindling herd and protect their imperiled migration routes.
For photographer Robert Doisneau, finding an openly affectionate couple in the City of Light was as easy as falling in love
The French author's piquant observations on American gumption and political hypocrisy sound remarkably contemporary 200 years after his birth
New palm-size computers show videos and maps to lead visitors around even to a good cup of joe
Following a humbling retreat from Lebanon and increasingly at odds with the U.S., the proud Arab nation finds itself at a critical juncture
A Q&A with Alice Waters
Gregory Colbert's haunting photographs, exhibited publicly for the first time in the US, hint at an extraordinary bond between us and our fellow creatures
When these fisher poets gather, nobody brags about the verse that got away
A stroke of astonishing good fortune that even the author's skeptical father might embrace
A marauding hog bites the dust in a border dispute between the United States and Britain that fails to turn ugly
Mexican immigrants are defying expectations in this country-and changing the landscape back home
An exhibition featuring the first CT scans of the boy king's mummy tells us more about Tutankhamun than ever before
He made little headway with President Grant, but Red Cloud won over the 19th century's greatest photographers
Archaeologist Alanah Woody's infectious enthusiasm for Nevada's rock art knows no bounds
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