Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two ...

American Indians have long been erased or hidden from historical records, but archivists and Native communities are working ...

This famous commercial artist loved by millions never got the critical acclaim she probably deserved. A museum looks to ...

The 26th U.S. president is both lauded as a conservationist and condemned as a big-game hunter. A new book recounts the ...

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1981. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, p. 350. "Smithsonian Institution Libraries Catalogue," a computer-output ...

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The toppling of Confederate statues during nationwide protests against racial injustice brought renewed attention to the importance of U.S. public monuments, very few of which were made by Black ...

Metal detectorists scanning a Baltic Sea beach in Poland have discovered a spectacular Hallstatt period dagger dating back approximately 2,800 years. The intricately decorated weapon, found embedded ...

Blue Water Massacre in 1855, the first major ambush on a Native American community by the U.S. Army. It would become the ...

The Smithsonian museums, including the National Museum of African ... The impermanence of our digital footprint, especially in this age of AI scraping and incomplete catalog streaming, is distorting ...

The look on the curator’s face said it all, and the intensity of the conversation was escalating by the moment. Confusion to worry. Worry to dread. “I want to do this,” the curator said. “But I don’t ...

The Smithsonian Institute’s museums, research centers, and the National Zoo remain open this week despite the government shutdown that started at midnight Oct. 1. The Smithsonian, a federal government ...