Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of ...

In the recent flurry of executive orders from President Donald Trump, one warned of “a distorted narrative” about race ...

The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

when I would spend hours at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum learning about the history of human ...

Stone tools unearthed in China's Yunnan province suggest Neanderthals or another ancient human species adapted to harsh ...

when I would spend hours at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum learning about the history of human flight and ballooning. As a professor, I’ve integrated the ...