Smithsonian Magazine9h
On This Day in 1890, the U.S. Army Killed Nearly 300 Lakota People in the Wounded Knee Massacre
The mass murder made sensational news at the time, but getting to the heart of the matter took a much deeper view of American ...
Smithsonian Magazine11h
Edited by Meilan Solly
The magazine's most-read articles of the year included a close-up look at the adorable yet venomous pygmy slow loris, a ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
Discover the Story Behind a Legendary Exposé of the Brutality of the Soviet Union
Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
Seventy-Seven Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2024, From a Mysterious ‘Anomaly’ Near the Great Pyramid of Giza to a Missing Portrait of Henry VIII
The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
At the Smithsonian’s National Design Museum, a Home Is What You Make of It
In a new exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, artists explore just what makes a space feel like home ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
How an Experiment to Amplify Light in Hospital Operating Rooms Led to the Accidental Invention of the Snow Globe
The origins of the decoration lie in Vienna’s 17th district, where the inventor’s descendants are still making them for ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
Erik Trinidad
Erik Trinidad is an award-winning freelance travel and food lifestyle journalist and video creator. He has written for AFAR, BBC Travel, Travel + Leisure and other publications.
Smithsonian Magazine2d
A Brilliant Folk Musician Turned the Natural Sounds of the Blue Ridge Mountains Into Powerful Songs
Daniel Bachman is on a mission to evoke Virginia’s past through strange medleys of sounds Brendan Fitzgerald Daniel Bachman ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
On This Day in 1831, Charles Darwin Embarked on a Journey That Led to His Groundbreaking Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
Darwin was just 22 when he set out on a voyage that would change the way humanity understands itself and the natural world ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt
In the waterways connected to the Great Lakes, researchers uncover boats that tell the story of millennia of Indigenous history Jacqueline Kehoe Maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen discovered ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
Can a New DNA Database Help Save This Incredible Sea Turtle?
The shells of the hawksbill sea turtle have been used for luxury items for centuries, but with the species now endangered, new technology is pinpointing where protections are needed most Though ...