The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History recently collected the laptop used by an IRS Criminal Investigation ...

Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the association led the black civil rights struggle in fighting injustices such as the ...

For more than 500 years, waves of new Americans arrived by sea. In that time, the nation’s seacoasts, rivers, lakes, and ...

For Barbara Beirne, being a photographer meant building a relationship of trust and collaboration with her subjects and using ...

The Battle of Bull Run, the first major clash in the Civil War, ended in a Confederate victory. It shattered illusions that ...

From the impact of new technologies to the influence of social and cultural changes, FOOD: Transforming the American Table explores the transformation of food and drink in post-World War II America.

Q-Ban Hair Tonic was produced by Q-Ban Hair Laboratories, Hessig-Ellis Drug Company of Memphis, Tenn. The Q-Ban trademark was registered by the company in 1919, but they claimed to have been producing ...

America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

We are currently recruiting for Spring 2025 internships. Descriptions for Spring 2025 projects for the NMAH Internship Program can be found here. Applications are due on Monday, November 18, 2024, at ...

The American Presidency opened in November of 2000, and is a large exhibition measuring 7,500 square feet. The main entrance features the exhibition title and is adjacent to the First Ladies ...

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

America went to war against Spain to free Cuba from Spanish domination. But the war provided the United States an opportunity ...