A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...

Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

Celebrate Juneteenth, stay up late at the Smithsonian’s Solstice Saturday, dance at an outdoor concert or sample barbecue on Pennsylvania Avenue.

The banner, plus another featuring President Abraham Lincoln hanging a few columns away, was installed last week in honor of the department’s 163rd birthday and will be up “for the coming ...

The foundation has never publicly acknowledged that the hat may not have been Abraham Lincoln’s. But a 2013 report by officials at the Chicago History Museum and Smithsonian, ...

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

More from Smithsonian magazine. ... It was here, on August 27, 1858, that U.S. senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and ... "He deliberately emphasized his height by wearing a top hat, ...

Union Colonel Phil Sheridan’s Valiant Horse A young war-horse helped Phil Sheridan win the day in the Shenandoah Valley and, made famous by a poem, helped Abraham Lincoln win re-election ...

Ford's Theatre. Draped in funereal crepe after Lincoln was assassinated there (above, left in 1865), it is back in use today (right). Library of Congress, Regis Lefebure The Plan. "The nest where ...

Zeller reasoned that Lincoln rode on horseback to the ceremony while wearing a top hat and white riding gloves. Gardner, he deduced, had taken rapid-fire photos of the faraway president.

Anyone with a 3-D printer can now make a replica of our woolly mammoth skeleton. Smithsonian Digitization Program Office. Few objects better convey the toll the Civil War took on Abraham Lincoln ...