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VIDEO: “MLK: The Assassination Tapes” now a Peabody Award Winner
Smithsonian Channel is about to get some new hardware to add to its fast-growing awards collection. On Wednesday, March 27, the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass...
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The Story Behind Smithsonian Castle’s Red Sandstone
The Smithsonian Castle was built in the 1850s, using the red sandstone from the Seneca quarry. Author Garrett Peck tells the quarry’s story in his new book, The Smithsonian Castle and the Seneca...
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Old Ebbets Field Opens One Hundred Years Ago Today
Ebbetts Field opened April 9, 1913. Photo courtesy of the American History Museum You may think we’re sick of baseball here at Smithsonian Mag, seeing as we’ve already written about its sheet music...
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Swimming Champion and Actress Esther Williams Dies, Her Legacy Lives on at...
Esther Williams in 2008 with two scrapbooks of her famous career in “aqua-musicals.” Photo courtesy of the American History Museum American swimming champion-turned-movie star Esther Williams died...
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4 Tips for Inventing the Next Great Skateboarding Trick, Courtesy of Tony...
Legendary skateboarders Tony Hawk and Rodney Mullen will be at the National Museum of American History this weekend for Innoskate, a skateboarding innovation festival. Photo by Flickr user M. Angel...
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Hear From the Real Butler of the White House, Eugene Allen
Eugene Allen, inspiration behind The Butler, poses for a portrait by Roland Freeman. Image courtesy of © 2013 Roland L. Freeman The top movie at the U.S. box office last weekend was Lee Daniels’ The...
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Bearing Witness to the Aftermath of the Baptist Church Bombing in Birmingham,...
On September 15, 1963, two and a half weeks after the March on Washington, four little girls were killed in the Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Addie Mae...
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You Can, You Will, You MUST See This Poster at American History (as soon as...
The day before the government shutdown began, the American History Museum installed this stunning billboard from World War II in the west wing off the second-floor Flag Hall. The poster was conserved...
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Installing an Artifact in a Museum That Hasn’t Even Been Built Yet
For many, the most poignant symbols of segregation during the Jim Crow era are the four men who refused to leave a Greensboro lunch counter or the arrest of Rosa Parks after she refused to give up her...
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The Day Winston Churchill Lost His Cigar
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 1941. Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery. A portrait of Winston Churchill photographed by Yousuf Karsh during the darkest days of World War II reveals a...
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What Did the FAO Schwarz Catalog Look Like in 1911?
FAO Schwarz Flagship Store. New York at Christmas time evokes many memories but as a child it meant a visit to FAO Schwarz, the oldest toy store in the United States. When a 1911 catalog from the...
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