As early herders spread across northern and then eastern Africa, the communities erected monumental graves which may have served as social gathering points
2018 Smithsonian Ingenuity Awards
His uproariously inventive one-man show, soon to be shown on Netflix, puts the story of a neglected culture center stage
A confluence of circumstances led to the deadly disaster, 100 years ago today, in the New York subway that killed 93
Though the guerrilla fighters didn’t succeed in slowing the Allied occupation of Germany, they did sow fear wherever they went
Eighty years ago, the horse famously trounced Triple Crown winner War Admiral. Did genetics make him an unlikely success?
The head of the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site calls upon his colleagues to engage with their community by opening their doors to voting
Judy and Dennis Shepard lay their son to rest at the Washington National Cathedral after donating childhood artwork, photos and a wedding ring
For centuries, inventors have been patenting technology to prevent such a nightmare from happening
Personal stories take the place of military artifacts at the new National Veterans Memorial & Museum
Steel and zinc industries provided Donora residents with work, but also robbed them of their health, and for some, their lives
With a half-dozen medical schools and a shortage of bodies, grave robbing thrived—and with no consequences for the culprits
It took millennia, but America’s founding farmers developed the grain that would fuel civilizations—and still does
A turn-of-the-century trial, the focus of a new book, took aim at the Victorian double standard
The Unforgotten: New Voices of the Holocaust
Raised in the U.S. but a lifelong speaker of Lithuanian, Laima Vince became enamored of Matilda Olkin’s writing
The Unforgotten: New Voices of the Holocaust
Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?
The Unforgotten: New Voices of the Holocaust
The recovery of a diary written by a brilliant woman named Matilda Olkin raises trenchant questions about wartime collaboration
Two newly translated diaries by young women murdered in the Holocaust cry out to us about the evils of the past and the dangers of the present
The Unforgotten: New Voices of the Holocaust
An 18-year-old girl, terrorized by the Nazis, kept a secret journal. Read exclusive sections from it here, presented in English for the first time
The Unforgotten: New Voices of the Holocaust
Young people caught in the crossfire of history provide fearless accounts of the horrors of war—and shatter our complacency in real time
The Smithsonian Institution extends its loan of the historic artifact to Islay—a small island with a big heart
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