Cellphones put the power of the world at our fingertips and it's all made possible by rocks formed millions of years ago, deep underground.

Don Eddy once described himself as “an obsessive-compulsive precisionist.” The execution of his hyperrealistic paintings requires tremendous discipline and scrupulous attention to detail. His process ...

Memory is a repository for history—one that can be unlocked by the voice. But living memory can be lost forever if it is not recorded. That is why historians across the Smithsonian are racing to ...

Identity mapping—an activity included in one of five modules co-created by Smithsonian educators and teachers in Nebraska—prompts students to think deeply about the communities they belong to: their ...

In 1974, the U.S. Senate dress code forbade women from wearing pants. Emily Card, then a legislative fellow, was too busy drumming up support for the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to comply. “By the ...