Before 1619, enslaved landed in Florida. In 1738, their descendants founded the country’s first free Black settlement, Fort ...

M ost people know Harriet Tubman as the Black abolitionist who led about 70 enslaved people to freedom via the Underground ...

Ameya Okamoto, Santana Walker, and Celeste Hampton—part of the Smithsonian's Nail Art Project. Photos courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution When Indigenous entrepreneur and aesthetic innovator ...

The new Johns Hopkins Student Center will feature a sit-down restaurant, coffee shop, and Chinese-American food stall from ...

The idea has been floated before, but this time it has the backing of key members of Congress. Friends of Ireland Caucus Co-Chairs Congressman ...

Step back in time to the 18th century at Colonial Williamsburg, where the colonial era is meticulously preserved and ...

American Sublime, the artist’s debut solo exhibition at a New York museum and the most comprehensive showing of her work.

A group of bipartisan US Congressmen want to establish a commission to study the creation of a National Museum of Irish ...

From left: Mass Humanities Program Manager Marie Pellissier, Lee Executive Assistant Sabrina Touhey, and Lee Town ...

Demilitarized zones—from Vietnam to Korea, Cyprus and Antarctica—require tourists to look beyond what exists and to find the ...

Smithson was one of the first researchers to systematically categorize calamine—or zinc as it was later called. In 1832, three years after Smithson’s death, French mineralogist François Sulpice ...