The enfranchisement of property-owning women over 30 on this day in 1918 came at a time of great strife within political ...

When Franklin Roosevelt Clashed With the Supreme Court—and Lost. Buoyed by his reelection but dismayed by rulings of the ...

So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without ...

The findings suggest that astronomers’ widely accepted cosmology models might be missing something—meaning the longstanding mystery known as the “Hubble tension” continues ...

The United States Postal Service and volunteers have responded to North Pole holiday correspondence for more than a century ...

Bao Li (whose name means “treasure” and “energetic”) and Qing Bao (“green treasure”) are the next step in a continuum of ...

The scales on crocodiles’ heads are very different from the skin appendages of other animals and even distinct from the ...

Jean Charles Blais had no idea that his studio in southern France was hiding a Roman funerary inscription dating to the first ...

Conservationists hope the love story between Boris and Svetlaya might indicate a new, successful chapter in tiger ...

To commemorate the National Day of the Horse, see herds of equine images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...

Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish ...

Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish ...