Sam meddles shamelessly in U.S. politics and carries on with Miss Liberty, but nobody knows for sure exactly where he came from
But it's true. In the mid-1800s Lucien Maxwell, a dauntless former mountain man, ruled a huge chunk of New Mexico and lower Colorado
In 1939 Moritz Schoenberger, a Hungarian Jew living in Vienna, wanted to join his family in America. His ordeal is told at the National Postal Museum
The Festival of American Folklife is a popular model for presenting grass-roots culture to the public
The Soap Box Derby, a peculiarly American institution, thrives on the U.S. teenage passion for anything that has four wheels and goes fast
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Over the past quarter-century, the magazine has published more than 2,000 major articles
The talent and commitment of our volunteers add immeasurably to the well-being of the Smithsonian
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Trial by jury has had some ups and downs, but it beats what led up to it--trial by combat, and ordeal by fire, water or poison
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A silver speedster from the 1930s evokes the golden age of flight, a pair of world-class speed records and the early triumphs of Howard Hughes' life
A century after his birth, four decades after his death, the amazing Babe maintains a powerful grip on America's imagination
Razors have come a long way in 7,000 years, but preparation and a steady hand remain the survival skills each time steel meets skin
At the site of a new Smithsonian museum, a team of archaeologists dug up traces of a 19th-century neighborhood
The electronic transformation that is under way at the Smithsonian will fulfill a central promise of democracy
We were floundering in the War of 1812 when young Captain Perry delivered the winning motto, "Don't Give Up The Ship"
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