Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to ...

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But living memory can be lost forever if it is not recorded. That is why historians across the Smithsonian are racing to conduct—and preserve—oral histories. These in-depth interviews illuminate ...

Mount Vesuvius’ eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show that one of them is a philosophical text called “On Vice” May 16 ...