There’s more to farm life than waking up with the rooster’s cock-a-doodle-do to milk the cows. It’s also a culture that ...

Investigators pulled a 1960s Buick sedan from the waterway in central Minnesota that provides new details about a man’s ...

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.

When the new Cotoni-Coast Dairies national monument opened to the public on August 16, the 5,800-acre property officially ...

The toolmakers or their ancestors might have arrived on Sulawesi by clinging to vegetation during a storm, but their identities remain a mystery ...

The San Antonio Public Library received the book in the mail along with a letter: "I hope there is no late fee for it because Grandma won't be able to pay for it anymore" ...

Both Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd ate corn bread as children. He ate it from necessity; she ate it from tradition. The circumstances of their childhoods produced very different recipes. As adults, ...

VISITING What to know: The museum is open seven days a week, except Dec. 25, between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Admission is free, and passes are not required. For more information, go to ...

In 1774, 51 North Carolinian women led by Penelope Barker signed a resolution supporting the boycott of British goods ...

A university choir has revived music found hiding in plain sight in a book from southern England's Buckland Abbey ...

Collectors have a rare opportunity to bid on the remains of the fearsome creature, a large canid that went extinct around the end of the last ice age ...

Researchers have digitized all four volumes, which are now available online. The autobiographies offer a compelling window ...