Beginning this Friday, January 24, giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao are officially on view to the public at the Smithsonian’s ...

Anyone with an internet connection can volunteer to transcribe historical documents and help make the archives' digital catalog more accessible ...

An arboreal archaeologist roots around the Italian countryside and in centuries-old frescoes for a cornucopia of fruits long ...

An archive of scores by composer Arnold Schoenberg and the collections of countless contemporary artists have been lost in ...

New institutions dedicated to artificial intelligence, West African art, barbeque and more are expected to welcome visitors ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President ...

The rare papers were part of a larger collection from rock journalist Al Aronowitz, a close friend of Dylan’s in the 1960s ...

Better known as becoming the first Native American woman to receive a medical degree, Susan La Flesche, along with her sister Rosalie, made significant contributions to the anthropological study and ...

Image courtesy of the National Museum of Natural History National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...

The Be-In’s organizers based their plans off a smaller event the previous fall called the Love Pageant Rally, which was held ...

Starting in 1894, Lyman Gilmore constructed a series of gliders and powered airplanes in his barn in Grass Valley, California. There is no evidence, however, that any of Gilmores creations flew.