American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the coll

Students will learn how the Smithsonian acquired the house at 16 Elm Street Ipswich, Massachusetts and saved more than a dozen family stories and 200 years of American social history. They will also learn some of the methods historians and curators used to learn about this house's past, the ways

In this post, readers will be introduced to our engineering collections via the architectural masterpiece Grand Central Station, which celebrated its 100th anniversary on February 2, 2013.  Written by Goldman Sachs Fellow Allison Marsh, a researcher in the Division of Work and