Explore collection items related to Ireland and Irish American history and heritage. Learn how a chance encounter and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival helped launch a revival of Irish American music.
American bison inspired the founding of the Zoo and two remain on display there today. Image: National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...
Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, South Korea) “Public Figures” (detail), 1998–2023, Jesmonite, aluminum, polyester resin. Credit: Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul and London. David Yu, ...
Money is power. But who is on our money—or isn’t—can be just as powerful. While Lady Liberty has graced American coins and dollars for most of our history, it wasn’t until the 1970s that a real woman ...
Scientists at the National Museum of Natural History trained computer models to identify photos of Amazonian fish species. PHOTO Douglas Bastos “If we can work with communities to use AI in ecological ...
The AstroAI initiative, launched in 2023, uses AI to search for life on exoplanets, such as the exoplanet WASP-39 b imagined in this illustration. IMAGE NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Could ...
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Lois Mailou Jones in her classroom at Howard University, Credit: Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.