A new book highlights 100 artistic curiosities, from the nude "Mona Lisa" to portraits of a dog-headed saint
Smithsonian podcasts explore the legacy of Executive Order 9066 and the camera that almost didn’t make it to the Juno spacecraft launch
A prolific writer, he inspired such luminaries as Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes
Seven artists compete for a $100,000 purse and an exhibition at the Hirshhorn in this ground-breaking show airing on the Smithsonian Channel
This 19th-century vessel, made to store meat, carries a powerful backstory of Drake's defiance of the laws of enslavement
Intricate designs painted by biscuit artist Ella Hawkins are part of a lengthy baking tradition
The Hirshhorn Museum displays dynamic works of Chinese self-expression
Ehrman Crest Elementary and Middle School is an innovative blend of children’s museum and classroom
The Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative and its partners are aiding in the fight to protect the country's history and to document attempts to erase it
From ancient Greece to Shrove Tuesday celebrations, the sweet or savory flat cakes have long been a culinary staple
For more than a century, New Orleans' Black residents have donned Native-inspired attire to celebrate Carnival
The Fat Tuesday tradition centered around eating fried, filled Polish pastries is celebrated across the Midwest, but especially in Chicago
The W.F.K. Travers painting hid in plain sight at a New Jersey town hall for 80 years before it was restored and brought back to Washington
Thanks to a few horticulturalists with an eye for history, a garden lost to time peeks out from the creeping vines
You may think of the “Big Easy” on Fat Tuesday, but other towns throughout Louisiana and the wider Gulf Coast play host to raucous celebrations
A new film imagines the events that inspired the notoriously private author to write "Wuthering Heights"
Taken a half-century ago, her images strike a contemporary pose
Trips to the 49th state inspired the characters in the writer-illustrator's latest children’s book "Cozy in Love"
Proponents of the teaching method argue that it encourages engagement with the language and the ancient past
The deposed monarch wrote the 57 encrypted messages during her captivity in England
The bones of long-deceased Capuchin friars are painstakingly displayed in a crypt beneath the Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
Crystals of Siberia
