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During Prohibition, an odd alliance of special interests argued beer was vital medicine
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Excavations in a legendary gold rush town uncover the unsung labors of Chinese immigrants on the frontier
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Jerry Seinfeld's silly, frilly prop takes its place in television history
Momentous or merely memorable
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With a little help from a rattlesnake's rattle, Sacagawea gives birth to a baby she names Jean Baptiste
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The shooting of protester James Meredith 38 years ago, searingly documented by a rookie photographer, galvanized the civil rights movement
African-American architect Julian Abele is finally getting recognition for his contributions to some of 20th-century America's most prestigious buildings
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Sixty-five years after Russell Lee photographed New Mexico homesteaders coping with the Depression, a Lee admirer visits the town for a fresh slice of life
![After the Bristish occupying army left Boston, Washington issued general orders (above) to his troops to "live in the strictest Peace and Amity with the [city's] inhabitants." He also urged the town fathers to turn over remaining British supplies and identify spies.](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/HWkeRXutjX-6fBfYEsIIbTRQ3IQ=/400x300/filters:no_upscale()/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/washington_doc.jpg)
Confronting the British in Boston in 1775, Gen. George Washington honed the qualities that would carry the day in war and sustain the new nation in peace
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Severe cold and fraternizing with the Mandan keep Meriwether Lewis' doctoring in demand
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Founded by a freed slave, an Illinois town was a rare example of biracial cooperation before the Civil War
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To a war-weary nation, a U.S. POW's return from captivity in Vietnam in 1973 looked like the happiest of reunions
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America's first permanent colonists have been considered incompetent. But new evidence suggests that it was a drought—not indolence—that almost did them in
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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 birth of the TV dinner started with a mistake
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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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A new exhibition explores the personal dimensions of war: valor and resolve—but also sacrifice and loss
The fanciful design of the Smithsonian Castle150 years old in Decemberbucked the neo-classical trend of Washington's other monuments and buildings
Introducing a new department and the editor who runs it
What if Lincoln had lost, or if Theodore Roosevelt had won? How did Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan emerge to lead a dispirited nation?
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