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Thomas Jefferson imagined the waterway as the heart of his “empire of liberty” as he dispatched surveyors to measure a land ...

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The Apollo 8 lunar module pilot also served in the U.S. Air Force and worked extensively on nuclear energy projects ...

Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about the ...

The "excellently preserved" chess knight, six-sided die and several other pieces are all about 1,000 years old ...

During World War II, the Nazis stole two 17th-century paintings from a Jewish family in France. After spending decades at the ...

A new study suggests people in the Eurasian steppe bred horses around 2200 B.C.E., challenging earlier ideas about the ...

A genetic analysis of opulent burial mounds in Germany sheds new light on how power passed through family lines ...

From field sites in Vietnam and the coast of west Africa to her laboratory in Washington, D.C., Kate Bemis applies her ...