A traveling version of the thought-provoking Smithsonian exhibition “Americans” will begin a six-year national tour in August. Based on the major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the ...

Smithsonian scientists strive to understand the natural world from plants to planets. We work to save endangered species and conserve biodiversity, explore the Earth’s geological past and present, and ...

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Thomas McKenney, United States superintendent of Indian trade in Georgetown, then port of entry for the District of Columbia, conceived the idea of developing a government collection of portraits of ...

Explore items in the Smithsonian's collections related to 1974. In January, the television sitcom Happy Days premiered on the ABC network. On March 1, a grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

A new global analysis reveals a critical oversight in sustainable coffee and carbon-capture initiatives. These programs ...

National Tour Launches Sept. 13 and National Museum of American History Exhibition Opens Sept. 26 ...

Smithsonian volunteers play essential roles in sharing our rich collections, exhibitions, research, and educational programming with the public. We are always on the lookout for dynamic, curious ...

Reprinted in Nso and its neighbours: readings in the social history of the Western Grassfields of Cameoon, edited by Bongfen Chem-Langhëë (Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research & Pub., CIG, 2011), chapter ...

Object Details Author Hawass, Zahi A Garrett, Kenneth Subject Tutankhamen King of Egypt Contents Prelude to Tutankhamun -- Daily life in Tutankhamun's world -- Religion before Tutankhamun -- Death, ...

The whole ball of wax and other colloquial phrases : what they mean & how they started / Laurence Urdang ...