The Smithsonian’s collections speak to the resolve and ingenuity of America’s service members Lonnie G. Bunch III A chess set used during the Civil War by Union commander George B. McClellan helps ...

This above lithographic print depicts men in action during the Battle of Gettysburg. Armed Forces History / NMAH This U.S. Army canteen, sporting a bulls-eye design and a painted scene of camp life, ...

It’s the largest collection of its kind in the world: An entire cache of massive 20-feet-long whale skulls, 70-foot spines, giant flippers and much more. If you ever get the chance to see the ...

Bronze bison statues completed at a Colorado foundry are now on permanent display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's Japan Expedition (1853-1854) not only began a tradition of “gunboat diplomacy” so often associated with mid-nineteenth century American expansionism, it also ...

The 250th anniversary of the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence July 4, 2026, known as the Semiquincentennial, is a historic milestone. Two-and-a-half centuries ago, 56 signatures on a ...

Gary Staab makes a careful adjustment to the massive head of a bull bison. The Missouri sculptor created a trio of burly bovines for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington.