By Cushman’s account, however, Chépart was “the last to receive his just reward.” Though he fled to his garden, “he was found ...

Held on this day in 1895, the 54-mile round trip took more than ten hours and involved accidents with streetcars, horses and ...

Turkey may have been part of the holiday meal, along with venison, shellfish and corn, but pies and potatoes were decidedly ...

The museum has been staging exhibitions featuring employee art since 1935. This year's show is only the second in history ...

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

Pre-Maya hunter-gatherers built the system in Central America in response to a drought between 2200 and 1900 B.C.E., ...

Trillions of insects move around the globe each year. Scientists are working on new ways to map those long-distance journeys ...

With tears in her eyes on the morning of November 27, 1978, Dianne Feinstein stepped in front of a gathering of San Francisco ...

The artist used white chalk to draw on blank advertising panels inside subway stations. Now, 31 surviving examples of these ...

The idea suggests prehistoric people built a ring of stone circles in modern-day Dartmoor National Park around the same time ...

Through Indigenous weaving workshops and environmental science projects, the Smithsonian engages in co-learning projects to ...

The fifth-century artifact was found in the ruins of a structure that may have been connected to the military. Historians ...