The 1972 Watergate break-in that led to Richard Nixon's resignation is the subject of a new exhibition
Fearful that the Able Archer 83 exercise was a cover for a NATO nuclear strike, the U.S.S.R. readied its own weapons for launch
Travel through time by lifting like passengers on the Titanic or swimming like the sixth U.S. president
A pivotal letter from Oscar Howe, whose work is the focus of a new exhibition, demanded the right to free expression and the art world began to listen
For 75 years, images of bunker life have reflected the shifting optimism, anxieties and cynicism of the Atomic Age
The revenge saga blends traditional accounts with the supernatural to convey the lived experience of the Viking age
A portrait reveals the dignity behind the maligned woman who stepped up to tell the truth
Sixty years after Seattle's Century 21 Exposition, world's fairs have largely fallen out of fashion in the U.S.
The still life went unnoticed at an Australian school for 150 years
A new book explores how immunity to the disease created opportunities for white, but not Black, people
The new series dramatizes the White House years of Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama
A scholar traces the folk figure's history from the Neolithic era to today
Under the pseudonym Mayn Clew Garnett, author Thornton Jenkins Hains published a maritime disaster story with eerie parallels to the real-life tragedy
The rare Lilienthal glider, one of only a few originals known to exist, is newly conserved and ready for its public debut
A new exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. showcases 130 works by artists from 24 countries
A new exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, tells the story of founders Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt
The Red Ball Express' truck drivers and cargo loaders moved more than 400,000 tons of ammo, gas, medicine and rations between August and November 1944
The Smithsonian bestows its Great Americans Award on the former associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
In the early 1900s, Joseph Mikulec traveled some 175,000 miles on foot, gathering 60,000 signatures in a leather-bound album that is now up for sale
A new documentary from the Smithsonian Channel, 'The Color of Care,' produced by Oprah Winfrey, shines a light on medicine’s biases
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