This above lithographic print depicts men in action during the Battle of Gettysburg. Armed Forces History / NMAH This U.S. Army canteen, sporting a bulls-eye design and a painted scene of camp life, ...

Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854) not only began a tradition of “gunboat diplomacy” so often associated with mid-nineteenth century American expansionism, it also ...

Lenore Tawney, postcard to Maryette Charlton (1970) (All images courtesy of Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, from Pen to Paper: Artists’ Handwritten Letters from the Smithsonian’s Archives of ...

Decades of inadequate funding and inconsistent leadership have placed serious science at the Smithsonian Institution in peril, according to a report released yesterday by a commission formed to ...

In 1849 the Smithsonian purchased the Marsh Collection of European engravings. Not only the first collection of any kind to be acquired by the new Institution, it was also the first public print ...

High school history teacher Katharina Matro often pulls materials from the Smithsonian Institution website as she assembles her lessons. She trusts its materials, which don’t require the same level of ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and its Renwick Gallery invite applications to its premier fellowship program, the oldest and largest in American art. Scholars from any discipline whose ...

STATESBORO, Ga. (WTOC) - You’ve likely heard of the world’s largest museum network, the Smithsonian Institution, but have you heard that we have one of their collections in our area? Instead of flying ...

High school history teacher Katharina Matro often pulls materials from the Smithsonian Institution website as she assembles her lessons. She trusts its materials, which don’t require the same level of ...

High school history teacher Katharina Matro often pulls materials from the Smithsonian Institution website as she assembles her lessons. She trusts its materials, which don't require the same level of ...