African American History

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Dec. 21, 2020, 9:27 a.m. The year has been dominated by the twin pandemics of…

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Dec. 30, 2020, 7 a.m. The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most…

This past year left us with no shortage of incredible innovations, chief among them Covid-19 vaccines. Following a harrowing 2020,…

Seven days into his long-awaited journey home, 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents, who’d been stranded in the Arctic for…