In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, we’ve put together a top 10 list of the museum’s most exciting Latinx history objects. Clara de Pablo and Carlos Banegas Santos The National Museum of ...

The objects filling our homes rarely prompt consideration of their origins. Each item, from the coffee maker brewing your morning cup to the mattress supporting your nightly rest, emerged from ...

These legendary artifacts vanished from the historical record, yet their ghosts still haunt the imagination, fueling billion-dollar hunts across oceans and centuries. Throughout history, objects have ...

Online resource designed to improve students' knowledge of standard topics in U.S. History and to improve their ability to understand material culture objects as types of historical evidence. Includes ...

The ultimate historical investigation, very old objects can take you on a journey that predates history itself. Many different items fall under this heading, and we have arbitrarily limited the ...

With memories of Sept. 11, 2001 fading for some, and images of that day unknown to a younger generation, the Smithsonian Institution is working at piecing together history object by object. William ...

China and china: an introduction to materiality and a history of collecting / Vimalin Rujivacharakul -- Goncourt's China cabinet: China fantasy and a nineteenth-century French collector / Ting Chang - ...

This year, the museum opened “Forensic Science on Trial,” a temporary exhibition that explores how people influence the way forensic science is used in the pursuit of justice. The exhibition’s curator ...