Admission is free, and hours are from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day, with special evening concerts beginning at 5:30 p.m.

After many more visits back to the city, he now has a DC restaurant of his own: Casamara, a glam coastal Mediterranean dining ...

From the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books to the first weekend of Pittsburgh Pride and more, here's what's on the docket ...

A fire that engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, destroying one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War ...

Molecular clues from collagen in old bones are teaching us about the lives, movements, and demise of Ice Age megafauna like ...

At 33, he returned to Judea—by way of Morocco!—to talk up what a museum brochure calls the “sacred land” he had just visited. Having run afoul of the Roman authorities, Jesus was arrested ...

A young girl stands on a road, with trees and buildings behind her. She’s wearing a formal dress with dozens of elk teeth ...

Thomas Jefferson’s personally owned and signed copy of Cicero’s Ciceronis Oratione (“Orations”), in a six-volume set, acquired at auction directly from his personal library in 1829. Estimate: $150,000 ...

The Th omas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress (LOC) has long been among my favorite buildings in Washington, D.C.

More than 70 House Democrats are requesting the Smithsonian inspector general to kickstart an investigation into President Trump’s executive order targeting Smithsonian museums, arguing the ...

Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay reflected on what the Smithsonian museums mean to Americans as she received a lifetime achievement award on Thursday at the National Museum of American History.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Right now, a report is out claiming that a portion of the historic F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from the Greensboro sit-ins would be removed from the Smithsonian's National ...