For 75 years, images of bunker life have reflected the shifting optimism, anxieties and cynicism of the Atomic 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.
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
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 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
Forced to bear her enslaver's children, Mary Lumpkin later forged her own path to freedom
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These innovators pioneered word processing, launched Americans into space and more
The true meaning of a national symbol
Untold Stories of American History
In the sparse Utah desert, the vital contributions of these 19th-century laborers are finally coming to light
In February 1861, the Pinkerton agent, posing as the disguised president-elect's sister and caregiver, safely escorted him to Baltimore
Jane Bolin, Constance Baker Motley and Julia Cooper Mack laid the groundwork for the Supreme Court nominee
After Alice Ball's death in 1916 at age 24, a white man took credit for her research
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