Description: Masks and endless sanitizing again? What has the Smithsonian done during past pandemics? We’ll look back to the public health emergency in 1918.
Description: Although initially skeptical about the effectiveness of the hypsometer, Secretary Joseph Henry soon recognized the value of the instrument, which he discovered from his colleagues in the scientific field.
Description: President John F. Kennedy's doodles were given a new dimension by local Washington, D.C. sculptor Ralph M. Tate and the Anacostia Community Museum.
Description: Annette A. Aiello Smithsonian Institution Archives Oral History Collection, SIA009624When she was twenty-eight years old, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) staff scientist Annette Aiello (1941-) picked up a copy of Gray’s Manual of Botany to identify plants she photographed; that book changed her life. And the rest is history.As a young girl, Aiello felt