"Information Age: People, Information and Technology" exhibition at National Museum of American History, October 1990, by Rick Vargas.

The remarkable career of cardiac surgeon and researcher John Clavon Norman, Jr., M.D. (1930-2014) began in West Virginia with the examples set by his parents.

A look at some of the most interesting, and hilarious, letters that Helena M. Weiss received as Chief of the Office of Correspondence and Documents, and later, Registrar for the U.S. National Museum – and why they matter.

Worker collects crude gum on turpentine farm, 1880s.

When talking about institutional transparency, two things are essential — well-preserved original records and meaningful access to them.

Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley at Quantico, Virginia, on the day of the test flight of Aerodrome No. 5 on the Potomac River, May 6, 1896, by Alexander Graham Bell.

Lay figure group depicting Captain John Smith trading for corn with the Powhatan Indians at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, 1907.