In 1638, an earthquake in what is now New Hampshire and Plymouth, Massachusetts, left colonists stumbling from the strong ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for ...

Consider this ancient ear of maize ... have been detailing the roughly 9,000-year process by which Native Americans transformed teosinte, the smallish semitropical grass with no ears or cobs ...

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the ... silversmith Paul Revere took to his horse on a midnight ride to warn American rebels that British troops were approaching.

Tucked away in the southwestern corner of Missouri near the tiny town of Mindenmines, this sprawling 3,500-acre preserve of ...

Ancient housing data shows that wealth inequality often followed land monopolization but was sometimes curbed by inclusive ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

Early humans likely used naturally sharp rocks before making their own tools, a new hypothesis suggests, potentially pushing ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...