It is hard to imagine the United States without the Constitution. This short document, drafted in 1787 in a hot and stuffy ...

Experts have confirmed that the image of "Knight, Death and the Devil" is a real master engraving by the renowned German ...

To boost the iconic queen conch's population, researchers are relocating the heat-stressed creatures to cooler, deeper waters ...

In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection ...

His American art collection now resides at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, which opened as the Freer Gallery ...

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...

Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...

Through a convening of educators and community organizations, new education resources for students spotlight local histories ...

The artist's cityscapes, once dismissed as too masculine, would later influence the floral artworks that became central to ...

The vertical sign stretched across three stories of the Manhattan hotel, which once welcomed the likes of Bob Dylan, Patti ...

The annual award ceremony featured costumes, songs and paper airplanes as scientists recognized comedic research across ten ...

New research suggests the sarcophagus' occupant, previously known only as "the horseman," is Joachim du Bellay, a French ...