It was a dream to be asked by the Smithsonian to paint a portrait of disability icon Temple Grandin. Here's what I hope you ...

The accession contains two field books that document plant collecting conducted as part of the Project "Documentation and Revitalization of the Language and Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the ...

American history stretches back thousands of years through indigenous civilizations, then layers in centuries of colonial ...

During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked down and shot. Fifty-eight Sobibor inmates survived the war Meilan Solly - ...

Last summer, my mom told me she wanted to visit Washington, D.C. and tour all of the historical sites and museums, "before it was too late." I didn't really understand entirely what she meant until ...

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In the early 1970s — as the economy stalled, productivity declined and another recession loomed — President Richard M. Nixon’s administration appealed to an unlikely partner to help turn things around ...

The American Museum of Natural History has found a more appropriate space for Apex, a nearly complete dinosaur skeleton lent to it last year, when it was first assembled and put on view. Apex is an 11 ...

A Chinese woman has been arrested and charged over the theft of gold from the Natural History Museum in Paris, in one of several recent high-profile break-ins targeting French cultural institutions, a ...

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out the relationships and adaptations of these “absolutely bonkers” herbivores ...

The book follows a group of local kids who end up at Grandview Cemetery Author Logan Lyons is a former history teacher CHILLICOTHE— Sometimes, getting children to read and learn about local history ...

A woman from China was charged with stealing gold last month from National Museum of Natural History. It’s one of several high-profile recent thefts from French institutions. By Amelia Nierenberg ...