Civil rights chronicler Ernest Withers also photographed the glories of black baseball, including pioneering big leaguer Jackie Robinson
In Libya, again open to U.S. travelers after more than two decades, archaeologists have uncovered spectacular mosaics of the glories of Rome
A trove of recorded sounds preserves everything from tree frog calls to murmurs of the heart
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During Prohibition, an odd alliance of special interests argued beer was vital medicine
Science suffers a setbackand leads to a breakthrough
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After a winter of waiting, the corps leaves Fort Mandan and heads warily into bear country
A kinder, gentler tax form is on the way
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Eighty years after a Dayton, Tennessee, jury found John Scopes guilty of teaching evolution, the citizens of "Monkeytown" still say Darwin's for the birds
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Fifty years ago, a scientific panel declared Jonas Salk's polio vaccine a smashing success. A new book takes readers behind the headlines
The Lemelson Center celebrates a decade of nurturing the inventor in each of us
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A green anole lizard in Hawaii
After a daylong drive through Maui, Maize and his wife, Kim, were pulling into a hotel parking space when he discovered the head of a green anole lizard "peeking around the edge of a leaf. I shot about three, four pictures, but [this] one was my favorite."](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/tKFXn_9WgQo170U4gakIzlNs3eM=/400x300/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/ca/fa/cafaf37f-0aa9-4cdd-876a-1083560b732d/grandprize-natural-howard-maize-photo-contest-2nd-annual-smithsonian-green-anole-lizard.jpg)
See the winning photos from our 2004 contest
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The regime may inflame Washington, but young Iranians say they admire, of all places, America
A century after his death, novelist Jules Verne, who imagined Moon flight and deep-sea voyages, looks more prophetic than ever
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Who roamed the Colorado Plateau thousands of years ago? And what do their stunning paintings signify?
A new exhibition positions the bohemian artist's work above even his operatic life story
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In a 70-year career that began in Budapest, André Kertész pioneered modern photography, as a new exhibition makes clear
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Jerry Seinfeld's silly, frilly prop takes its place in television history
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Excavations in a legendary gold rush town uncover the unsung labors of Chinese immigrants on the frontier
Things are not always what they seem
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