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First impressions matter. When visitors to the National Air and Space Museum enter the great expanse of the America by Air ...

As research over the past several decades has shown, whales play a critical role in bolstering ocean ecosystems. Many whale ...

From the Ford Nucleon to the Studebaker-Packard Astral, these vehicles failed to progress past the prototype stage in the ...

On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...

Photographs by Zack Arias New evidence shows that FDR's infamous attorney general rescued an innocent man accused of murder—and then rescued him again Ken Armstrong, Smithsonian magazine and The ...

Alan Bernstein of Pleasant Ridge will screen his documentary "When We Went Mad!" on Thursday night at the Redford Theatre in ...

Welcome to the 1970s, a strange mélange of grimy New York City streets, the hardscrabble blue-collar strength of union ...

Is the president-elect a convicted felon? Here's how Donald Trump's status will make history when he resumes the office of U.S. president.

“When he first started showing at art galleries, he showed with Colin de Land’s American Fine Arts in New ... Smithsonian.com ...

"Other rappers were harder and brasher, but nobody captured the creeping menace of life on the streets like this 20-year-old ...

The Americana Music Association was born at a series of meetings by roots music executives and advocates in 1999. As the AMA ...