Native peoples moved in and out of the area that was to become Yellowstone National Park for ceremonies, hunting, and the medicines, minerals, and plants found there. Yellowstone was established as ...

Portraits and other images of military and civilian leaders and personalities of the period. See the exhibition Gen. John J. Pershing and World War I, 1917-1918 on view at the Smithsonian's National ...

The Smithsonian's collections and archives are a rich source of information on American folk music and its many genres. Smithsonian Folkways is home to a significant collection of folk music ...

View a sample of the Latino and Latin American music resources in the Smithsonian's collections.

In 1960, Kennedy, then a senator from Massachusetts, defeated opponent Richard Nixon to become the 35th and youngest elected president. The country was entranced by his charisma, his stylish wife, ...

To most Americans, the hammered dulcimer is a new and unfamiliar instrument. Even people who know much about American music often confuse the hammered dulcimer with the three- or four-stringed ...

American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) opened the door to spiritual and emotional expression, creating the foundations of modern dance as she codified inventive ...

A gospel superstar, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) combined traditional gospel music with virtuoso guitar solos on her Gibson SG to create a groundbreaking sound that would ...

Set squares are drawing instruments used to create vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines as well as certain angles. They may be shaped as squares, Ls, or triangles, although in American usage set ...

Join us during Ocean Month in June—and throughout the year—to marvel at the beauty and diversity of our natural world. Earth is over 70 percent ocean and much is still undiscovered about saltwater ...

Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet narrate an exploration of the exotic and rarely seen ecosystems that thrive in the deepest sections of the ocean. Divers photograph the most colorful undersea life, ...

Polygraph (cardio-pneumo-psychograph); 1921. Gift of City of Berkeley Police Department. Photo by Jaclyn Nash, National Museum of American History.