Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: The story of the damage context and advanced treatment of a Stivenson Magloire painting broken into fragments by the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Description: [view in Spanish]The first international scientific expedition sponsored by the United States circumnavigated the globe between 1838 and 1842, gathering natural history collections so vast they were estimated to weigh 40 tons. The U.S. Congress resolved to preserve these artifacts "collected at the expense of the government...Information about the first international