Smithsonian Magazine15h
Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Heat Nor Gloom Stopped the United States Post Office Department From Launching on This Day in 1792
The American Revolution cemented the importance of a federally protected post office in the minds of the people and ...
How allies have helped the US gain independence, defend freedom and keep the peace – even as the US did the same for our friends
Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George ...
The Lancet1h
Medicine and Black politics: Dr J D Harris's remarkable life
When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune ...
The New Yorker3h
We’d Never Had a King Until This Week
I would plunk my tricorne hat atop my head and meet the incoming waves of visitors, herding them around the Common and ...
What the Founding Fathers Said About Kings
P resident Donald Trump has a fondness for giving himself nicknames: “ very stable genius ,” “ Honest Don ,” and now “the ...
Christianity Today14h
In 19th-Century America, Two ‘Christian Nations’ Took Up Arms
Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...
insider.si.edu3h
Lily Gladstone’s Oscar Gowns To Be Displayed at the National Museum of the American Indian
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will display two gowns worn by Oscar-nominated actor Lily Gladstone (Siksikaitsitapi [Blackfeet]/Nimiipuu [Nez Perce]) at its museum in ...