Discover the fascinating story of penicillin, an antibiotic that revolutionized the medical world. From its humble beginnings ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History recently collected the laptop used by an IRS Criminal Investigation ...

For Barbara Beirne, being a photographer meant building a relationship of trust and collaboration with her subjects and using ...

For more than 500 years, waves of new Americans arrived by sea. In that time, the nation’s seacoasts, rivers, lakes, and ...

The Battle of Bull Run, the first major clash in the Civil War, ended in a Confederate victory. It shattered illusions that ...

The American Presidency opened in November of 2000, and is a large exhibition measuring 7,500 square feet. The main entrance features the exhibition title and is adjacent to the First Ladies ...

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes.

Coveting what remained of the Indian lands in the Southeast and lower South, the United States forced tribes to cede their ...

Struggling as an independent country, the Republic of Texas sought to become part of the United States. Although many in ...

America went to war against Great Britain to assert its rights as an independent, sovereign nation, and to attempt the ...

But it also wanted, in the words of President Woodrow Wilson, to “make the world safe for democracy.” The United States ...

America went to war against Spain to free Cuba from Spanish domination. But the war provided the United States an opportunity ...