Four decades after the fall of Argentina’s dictatorship, a fight over the country’s darkest chapter is reopening grievous ...

An American Tale ” ( December 2024) shows the worst and the best of the American character. One of the worst episodes of ...

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Photographs by Brian Schutmaat, Illustrations by Michael Byers In a world changing faster than ever, the enduring appeal of religious tradition shines in these photographs Smithsonian magazine ...

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Ted Scheinman is a senior editor for Smithsonian magazine. He is the author of Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan. The eighth president of the United States, the so-called ...

a Smithsonian geographer drops in on the region As Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles slips away, the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe plans community renewal and a museum for their new home The ...