Experts are removing layers of old varnish from "The Night Watch," which have yellowed with time, as museumgoers look on ...

In 1935, dozens of rhesus macaques absconded from Frank Buck's Long Island menagerie. Nearly a century later, 43 members of ...

Camp Century was built in 1959 and advertised as a U.S. research site—but it also hosted a clandestine missile facility ...

Through revolution and war, Touro Synagogue, which opened in Newport, Rhode Island, on this day in 1763, has long been a ...

A "corrupt bargain" that delivered John Quincy Adams the presidency ended the Era of Good Feelings and prompted a new period ...

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Three years before World War II, on this day in 1936, an inferno marked the symbolic end of the global hegemony of the ...

Geoscientists in Australia suggest a strong tornado swept across the Nullarbor Plain in November 2022 and made the ...

Through Indigenous weaving workshops and environmental science projects, the Smithsonian engages in co-learning projects to ...

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By Cushman’s account, however, Chépart was “the last to receive his just reward.” Though he fled to his garden, “he was found ...