TWITTER: @SmithsonianMag INSTAGRAM: @smithsonianmagazine FACEBOOK: smithsonianmagazine World War II Hero Please ask Steven Spielberg to bring “The Righteous Defiance of Aristides ...

THE MUSEUM of the past must be set aside, reconstructed, transformed … into a nursery of living thoughts,” George Brown Goode, the first curator of the Smithsonian’s Arts and ...

HALF A CENTURY BEFORE she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had her first nursing experience at age 11, when her older brother fell off a barn roof. For nearly two years ...

DOROTHEA DIX AT THE START OF THE war, the only official Army nurses were men. Dix, a school-teacher and fiery prison reformer in Massachusetts, traveled to Washington in April 1861 ...

HER CAREER LASTED only a decade, but Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) painted more than 500 canvases, including moody landscapes, wry self-portraits and careful studies of childr ...

TWO YEARS AGO, Noelle Martin discovered someone had made a “deepfake” video about her. Martin is a 26-year-old Australian law graduate who has lobbied governments and corporati ...

DROWNED SORROW Hippolyte Bayard claimed to invent photography, but after fellow Frenchman Louis Daguerre snagged a patent, in 1839, Bayard showed his anguish by staging the first k ...

THIS IS LOUIS ‘SATCHMO’ Armstrong,” the voice resounds, “talking to all the kids from all over the world at Christmastime.” With that, the trumpeter and singer tucks into ...

IN AUGUST 24, 1961, a jet streaked over the desert near Edwards Air Force Base. Fast planes were not unusual in that stretch of sky over Southern California, but women pilots were. ...

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