A "Happy Chinese New Year" cultural event hosted by the Chinese Embassy in the United States and the Smithsonian's National ...

By Candyce H. Stapen Washington, D.C., is not just any city. It's the nation's capital — and that makes all the difference.

Many a socialite visited Ann Lowe’s Gowns, a salon on Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue, in the 1950s. The daughter and ...

Recovering Voices The Smithsonian’s annual Mother Tongue Film Festival is celebrating its eleventh year with four days of programming from Thursday, February 19, to Sunday, February 22, at venues on ...

This timely history of religion in public schools examines a flashpoint that sparked a citywide boycott, a legal ...

An endangered Asian elephant calf born at the Smithsonian Zoo received its name.

Hemphill Artworks, the longtime modern and contemporary art gallery and a stalwart of the DC scene, has closed its location ...

Melania Trump said she was “proud” to have her 2025 inaugural gown join the first lady’s exhibit at the Smithsonian, describing her black and white fashion statement as modern, bold, simple, and ...

At the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the artist Nick Cave collected thousands of objects to mount an exhibition on memory and history. His giant mammoth sculptures are potent, timely symbols of ...

The “Crimson Record” study highlights patterns in suspected lynching cases often ruled suicides in the South over the last 25 ...

The speech could be Trump's last to a GOP-controlled Congress as Democrats look to re-take the House of Representatives in November.