On Nov. 15, 1932, Robert S. Brookings died in Washington, D.C. Brookings had a marked impact on Washington University, ...

The National Cold War Center in Blytheville is now partnered with a prominent institution. Center officials announced Tuesday ...

Gordon Feller is a Global Fellow: The Smithsonian Institution; a White House appointee of a federal commission advising the U.S. secretary of energy; and an adviser to U.S.-based companies.

There are few images more indelible in the history of American dance: Judith Jamison, regal and passionate in white leotard ...

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 ...

These three specimens of M. sestertia in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History (dorsal, top, and ventral views shown here) were collected in 1936.

“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 ...

Laser scanning from the air, LiDAR, is one of the tools that GEO-TREES researchers will use to create a global standard for measuring forest carbon. Credit: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ...