Kathryn Jones is on a mission to read every plaque in every D.C.-area Smithsonian. While she didn’t start the project for posterity, proposed cuts to the institution give her experiment extra weight.

A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with ...

Why Faneuil Hall Is the Perfect Metaphor for the American Revolution’s Complicated Definition of Liberty How a lively market on Boston Harbor became part of many defining moments of the Colonial ...

The Big Arch also differs from many of McDonald's other burgers for its bun. While most McDonald's burgers are made from ...

Today we launched Smithsonian Open Access, releasing 2.8 million 2D and 3D images and 173-years of staff-created data into the public domain as Creative Commons Zero. Open Access will help us touch ...