For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

The Smithsonian Institution is the world's largest museum, education, and research complex, comprised of 19 museums and galleries, nine research centers, 21 libraries, the National Zoological Park and ...

“I am so pleased to build on the 15 years of support we have had from the Lilly Endowment,” Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III said in a statement. “Their generous grant activates our ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Israeli military has carried out a wave of airstrikes targeting branches of a financial institution affiliated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, saying the quasi-banking system is ...

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For the first time in more than two decades, the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is welcoming two new giant pandas to Washington, D.C. The pair just arrived today after a ...

(Photo credit: Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.) Photos and b-roll will be available in the Zoo’s Newsroom by 3:30 p.m. Find comprehensive resources on the ...

‘Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey’ was written by musicologist and folklorist Mack McCormick, who died in 2015. The Smithsonian Institute has announced that an unfinished ...