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Don’t let the coronavirus quarantine hold you back from becoming an armchair traveler

How do you select one image to represent half a century of photography and art? You don’t

Through their images, these artists combat the stereotypes perpetuated by American history and culture

Venturing into the wilderness for often weeks at a time, nature photographer Dawn LaPointe is used to social distancing

Learn hip-hop dance or do citizen science without leaving home this week, thanks to the internet's many intrepid artists and educators

From Vietnam to Antarctica, this year's winners bring you amazing glimpses of a changing world—and the indefatigable human spirit

Engineers around the world are tweaking drones, robots and smart tools to help prevent the spread of the virus

He was talented and prosperous, but the young visionary worried the art world had left him behind. Then he discovered soup

A planned exhibition at the Portland Art Museum highlights the boldness of their work

The new book 'The Rainbow Atlas' invites readers on a vivid journey across the globe

Graffiti artists and muralists are sending messages of hope and despair with coronavirus public art

Why not use quarantine as an opportunity to have your homeschoolers master woodworking or engine repair?

The projects are helping Australia's drought-stricken rural towns find new life as outdoor art galleries

Browse the collections for artworks with a CC0 license as part of the Smithsonian's Open Access Initiative,

Stanley Lake with McGown Peak in the background.

Crossing people in front of an old woman sitting in front of a door

Escalator

This praying mantis looks completely shocked and like it was caught doing something wrong. I had to laugh while taking this shot, as mantis seem to be very expressive sometimes.

A Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) surveys its surroundings from a vantage point at sunset, with the imposing Torres del Paine (Chile) in the background. Scouts like this individual keep an eye out for predators.

Pastoral

I imagine the year to be 1957, when Havana was the world's 4th-most-expensive city at the time. Many vintage buildings remain in Havana today, and many of my friends still play and live in such buildings. Today, as the Castro era wanes, Cuba's youth have their doubts, dreams and stories... It is time to make new memories and new histories, while revisiting and reevaluating old ones...1957 is a collection of portraits and stories of my friends in Cuba...This one is called Havana Queen Story, a portrait for the drag Queen Salma. Drag Queens, together with many of the LGBT community are all issues that haven’t been tolerated well at all until recently. In recent years, they are playing to sell-out crowds again every night.

A Stormy Sunset for Elephants

Philip Roth's classic novel, newly adapted by HBO, envisions a world in which Charles Lindbergh wins the 1940 presidential election

The hair-care magnate at the center of the new Netflix series 'Self Made' left her imprint on the city where she launched her career

Historian Ellen Carol DuBois chronicles the twists and turns of the 75-year-path to securing the vote for women in her new book

Tour a gallery of presidential portraits, print a 3-D model of a fossil or volunteer to transcribe historical documents

A century ago, Susan Pringle Frost tirelessly campaigned to save these South Carolina buildings from destruction

A museum director looks to the past to explain why 'Aloha' is as necessary as ever

We're highlighting newly released titles may have been lost in the news as the nation endures the coronavirus pandemic

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is looking for 1,000 places tied to women's history, and to share the stories of the figures behind them

The question of bulletproofing vexed physicians and public figures for years, before pioneering inventors experimented with silk

The second installment in our weekly series spotlights titles that may have been lost in the news amid the COVID-19 pandemic

With the release of Trolls World Tour, and a new generation entranced by the ugly-but-cute toy, it appears the troll's lucky streak lives on

The third installment in our weekly series spotlights titles that may have been lost in the news amid the COVID-19 crisis

Tensions leading to the split, announced 50 years ago today, had been bubbling under the band’s cheery surface for years

A new book charts the history of counting the public, from the ancient censuses in Rome to the American version of decennial data collection

The Beatles guitarist visited his sister in southern Illinois just months before he'd become world famous

In the new miniseries, feminist history, dramatic storytelling and an all-star-cast bring the Equal Rights Amendment back into the spotlight

In a nation under quarantine, chronicling a crisis demands careful strategy

From kitsch to cool, ride the waves of undulating popularity of a tropical fashion statement

Seventy-five years after a memorable mission, the B26 bomber 'Flak-Bait' undergoes preservation at the National Air and Space Museum

Sheltering in place doesn’t mean you can’t study up for your next European adventure

As Babe Ruth was emerging as baseball's great slugger in 1918, he fell sick with the flu

A newly discovered pyramid yields a baffling mystery: A royal tomb, usually reserved for kings, is found to contain a mystery woman. Who was she and why was she given such a great honor?

During the Nazi occupation of France, many valuable works of art were stolen from the Jeu de Paume museum and relocated to Germany. One brave French woman kept detailed notes of the thefts

In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt set foot in the jungles of Cumana, in present-day Venezuela. What ensued was a detailed scientific mission to learn more about the natural world.

Henry Ford spent the majority of the war as a pacifist. By 1917, however, his state-of-the-art assembly line was churning out vital engine parts to feed the war machine.