In her illuminating and dramatic biography The Stranger and the Statesman, New York
Times bestselling author Nina Burleigh reveals a little-known slice of history in the life and …

Although the Smithsonian Institution has grown to be over a hundred years old, no full length
account of its various collections and fascinating activities had ever been written before Mr …

The Smithsonian Institution has been America's museum since 1846. What do its vast
collections--from the ruby slippers to a piece of Plymouth Rock, first ladies' gowns to …

In the mid-1830s, the United States learned that it was the beneficiary of a strange and
unprecedented bequest. An Englishman named James Smithson, who had never set foot in …

Honorable mention, National Council on Public History Book Award Outstanding Academic
Title, Choice In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display …

NK r EARLY a hundred years ago, John Gorham Palfrey, a devoted student of New
England's antiquities, remarked to Henry Adams that he had certain historic doubts as to the …

Why is the Smithsonian more than the" Nation's Attic?" Or more than a museum complex? As
Wilton S. Dillon shows, the Smithsonian came to be the institution we know today under the …

This engraving of Gerrit Smith, appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated? Newspaper,
November" He Stands Like Jupiter" The Autobiography of Gerrit Smith B^ JOHNR …

Franklin Roosevelt is said to have explained Al Smith, and his own New Deal, with these
words:" Practically all the things we've done in the federal government are the things Al …

Few men in the history of Georgia have come down to the present in hearsay and folklore as
profusely and as controversially as has James Monroe Smith, who became a millionaire …