It is hard to imagine the United States without the Constitution. This short document, drafted in 1787 in a hot and stuffy ...

In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection ...

In a twist befitting its pages, the satirical, anti-establishment publication that delivered laughs and hijinks to ...

The September/October issue of Smithsonian magazine, which just came out, has an article called "Take-down in Terre Haute." This is about "how a crusading suffragist helped expose a citywide ...

Bobbleheads, Magic 8 Balls, chairs and other artifacts in the Smithsonian reveal the historical significance of presidential ...

In late-nineteenth-century America, when museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art were still new and administrators and ...

A newly digitized set of records reveals the plight and bravery of enslaved people in the North Carolyn Eastman In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named ...

At the National Postal Museum, a new exhibition traces the long history of a newly popular way of voting Lonnie G. Bunch III Not just for national elections, absentee ballots were also used by the ...

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You could use the new microwave to make ... om Mat (“All About Food”) magazine, enjoyed the hot dish, and Jacobsson’s recipe appeared in the September 1976 issue of the publication ...

Located in the quaint village of Felpham in West Sussex, the cottage has fallen into disrepair in the last decade, with issues ranging ... It will have a new life as a hub for the public to ...

Get a slice of the Big Apple with shots of the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Central Park and more from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo ... iconic Empire City. New York City, also ...