BARBARA CLARK SMITH is the curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

A man was out exploring North Carolina’s South River when he noticed something unusual bobbing in the water. It appeared to ...

Jewish food, and especially Ashkenazic Jewish food, is slowly but steadily returning to the country, where many of the dishes ...

Originally from Poland, writer Olga Mecking now lives in the Netherlands. She is the author of Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing.

Snakes have adapted to climb trees, skate across hot sand, and even swim through water — all without arms or legs. What’s ...

The vagrant kelp gull mated with a local herring gull, though the chick did not survive. Experts say it's a "complete mystery" how the bird came to nest so far north in the first place ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S.

When Air and Space opened in 1976, Neil Armstrong’s first small step was fresh in our memories. With the nation’s 250th ...