Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to ...

Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South, was published in 2024 by Oxford University Press. His ...

Ted Scheinman is a senior editor for Smithsonian magazine. He is the author of Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan. The eighth president of the United States, the so-called ...

He is a frequent contributor to Smithsonian. A colossus of the sky, the bird of prey was nearly gone when biologists rescued it from extinction. Then came a terrible new challenge For hundreds of ...

Emily Frost runs the Smithsonian Natural History Museum's Ocean Portal. She is based in Washington, D.C. Scientists who explore the depths using submersibles continue to discover amazing animals ...

Got a golfer in the family? This property is going to be a hole-in-one with its location practically next to the Stevens Park Golf Course. In addition to this pretty perk, the home itself sits on ...

Lee surrendered to Union forces at Appomattox Court House, Representative Thaddeus Stevens received a surprising ... the new birth of freedom. Smithsonian magazine participates in affiliate ...

Thirteen years after “Mummy Is Coming,” American filmmaker Cheryl Dunye (“The Watermelon Woman”) is gearing up to produce a new feature film with “Black Is Blue” through her production ...

So they still hold that fascination for us. Daniel: From Smithsonian magazine and PRX Productions, this is “There’s More to That,” the show that takes the bore out of borealis and puts the ...

In a new research article, a seismologist argues that earthquakes are the reason for the mysterious lights associated with a local urban legend in Summerville Sara Hashemi Daily Correspondent ...

The cache included swords, spears, lances and chainmail. Researchers think these items may have been buried as part of a ceremony or sacrifice Sonja Anderson After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through ...

which follows a Black family's struggle to decide the fate of an ancestral heirloom Gregory Wakeman A Smithsonian curator reflects back on the artistic legend, a "Renaissance man" with 28 Grammys ...