Discover the fascinating story of penicillin, an antibiotic that revolutionized the medical world. From its humble beginnings ...

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

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.

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

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

324,000 aircraft 88,000 tanks 8,800 warships 5,600 merchant ships 224,000 pieces of artillery 2,382,000 trucks 79,000 landing ...

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

By the spring of 1944, a year of Allied bombing had weakened Germany’s war machine. The Allies finally were ready to strike ...

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

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

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

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 ...