Smithsonian Magazine

Smithsonian Magazine takes you on a journey through history, science, world culture and technology with breathtaking images from around the world.

“Without human empathy … attempts at colonization will fail.”

A House Full of Ideas • ONE OF SMITHSONIAN’S MOST STORIED BUILDINGS IS REOPENING WITH AN EYE TOWARD HUMANITY’S MANY POTENTIAL FUTURES

The Caregiver • Two hundred years after her birth, the famously intrepid Clara Barton’s pioneering commitment to public health has only become more crucial

Medic! • WOMEN WHO SHATTERED NORMS TO NURSE THE WOUNDED DURING THE CIVIL WAR

BEYOND REALISM • Raw and affecting portraits of rural life in the early 20th century were strikingly modern

Pictures That Deceive • Today’s video hoaxes can be downright ugly. But image-makers have been fooling viewers from the beginning

Faking It • A CROPPED HISTORY OF VISUAL HOAXES

SATCHMO AND SANTA • A jazz legend’s final recording

Faster Than Sound • When the spirited Jackie Cochran piloted this jet, she broke all kinds of barriers

Don’t Be Puzzled • YOU CAN FIND EIGHT ANSWERS IN THESE PAGES

TOP 12 • The Dozen Wines You Need to Try plus Bonus Bottles & Glasses

KEEPING FAITH IN CARIBOU COUNTRY • To most Americans, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is the subject of an intense policy controversy. To the Gwich’in people, it’s home

QUEST for COPPER • BENEATH A DESERT IN ISRAEL, ARCHAEOLOGISTS ARE UNEARTHING ASTONISHINGNEWEVIDENCEE OFAN ADVANCED SOCIETY IN THE TIME OF THE BIBLICAL SOLOMON

THE LONG MILE • IN DOGGED PURSUIT OF AN EXOTIC WORLD RECORD, AN ENGINEER HEADS TO THE DESERT TO SHOOT AN ARROW FARTHER THAN ANYONE EVER

Reign of Terroir • RICH, POWERFUL AND ECCENTRIC, ROQUEFORT IS STILL THE KING OF CHEESES. But for how much longer?

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