From mosquitoes to mementos, the smallest items in the Smithsonian's collections can be the most useful
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Readers respond to the October issue
![Alan Grant photographed Jayne Mansfield in 1957 in her Hollywood swimming pool, among hot-water bottles in her image, which now fetch hundreds of dollars each on Internet auction sites. "I could have been a multimillionare [if I'd saved some]," jokes Grant.](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/AkMpS_qsaV1LzGSvoCPCzcfBhrw=/400x300/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/slices_pool.jpg)
From Hollywood to Buchenwald, and Manhattan to the Kalahari, the magazine pioneered photojournalism as we know it. A new book shows how
But the boy who never grew up shows no signs of getting old
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The birth of the TV dinner started with a mistake
For more than a decade, American Robert Graf has combed the waters of a Seychelles island for a multimillion-dollar booty stashed by pirates 300 years ago
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A new museum celebrates the Underground Railroad, the secret network of people who bravely led slaves to liberty before the Civil War
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The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas
In Vilnius, Lithuania, preservationists are creating a living memorial to the nation's 225,000 Holocaust victims
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Spotted knapweed is driving out native plants and destroying rangeland, costing ranchers millions. Can anybody stop this outlaw?
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Robotic spacecraft allow geologists to explore other planets as if they were on-site
In Anchorage, Alaska, you never know when a moose will show up on your doorstep
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The foreign-born frontiersman became one of the 19th century's greatest wildlife artists and a hero of the ecology movement
Walker Evans' underground-breaking photographs resurface for the centennial of New York City's rapid transit system
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The works of Cai Guo-Qiang, director of visual effects for the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympic Games, truly sizzle
A North Vietnamese battlefield defeat that led to victory, the Tet Offensive still triggers debate nearly four decades later
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A new exhibition explores the personal dimensions of war: valor and resolve—but also sacrifice and loss
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For seven days, as the two presidential candidates maneuvered and schemed, the fate of the young republic hung in the ballots
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When Luna, a people-loving orca, chose Vancouver Island's Nootka Sound for his home, he set in motion a drama of leviathan proportions
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Researchers make an annual pilgrimage to Twinsburg, Ohio, to study inherited traits
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