Artists are nominated by a Smithsonian research staff member and then selected by a panel of Smithsonian art curators and representatives from the science, history and culture communities. More than ...

The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...

“Ancient DNA has produced a revolution in our understanding of recent human origins,” said Daniel Green, field program ...

Turtles have been around for 200 million years—outliving dinosaurs, surviving ice ages, and basically minding their own business the whole time. Tough on the outside, chill on the inside, they seem ...

A Good Day’s Work” repositions Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860–1961) as a multidimensional force in American art, whose beloved painted recollections of rural life earned her a distinctive ...

We have it in our power to begin the world over again,” Thomas Paine proclaimed in the pamphlet “Common Sense,” his argument against monarchy and hereditary privilege—and for American ...

Philately in the Americas : October 10, 11 and 12, 2008 Radisson at the Los Angeles Airport and Sheraton Gateway Hotels / co-sponsored by Federación Interamericana de Filatelia and Federated ...

In the late 1880s, American engineer Herman Hollerith saw a railroad punch card when he was trying to figure out new ways of compiling statistical information for the U.S. Census. His first punch card ...

April is Arab American Heritage Month. Americans of Arab heritage have advanced the nation’s achievements in diplomacy, science, technology, as well as in art and culture. In 1962, Dr. Alixa Naff set ...

Author Moynihan, M Subject Barro Colorado Island Biological Laboratory Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) Category Historic Images of the Smithsonian Notes Moynihan, a renowned animal ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

Bunjin bokkaku ga tsudou : 19-seiki Kita Shinano no bungei nettowāku / [henshū Nagano Kenritsu Rekishikan] ...