The Civic Season Pavilion inside the Smithsonian National Museum of American History features a 28-foot mural inviting ...

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 ...

A Brilliant Folk Musician Turned the Natural Sounds of the Blue Ridge Mountains Into Powerful Songs Daniel Bachman is on a mission to evoke Virginia’s past through strange medleys of sounds ...

In 2026, the United States of America turns 250 years old. We are tasked with not only celebrating this historic event but also making it a time of reflection. It reminds us of the ideals the nation ...

BARBARA CLARK SMITH is the curator of political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.