EditorialJesse Trevi?o’s autobiographical 1972 painting “Mi Vida” hangs in a 2019 exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, “Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975.” (Justin T. Gellerson/The New York Times)
EditorialA GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb, a munition that can be outfitted with a rocket motor, on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington on April 8, 2013. (Drew Angerer/The New York Times)
EditorialFrancis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). American writer. Portrait by David Silvette (1909-1992). National Portrait Gallery. Smithsonian Institution. Washington DC. United States.
EditorialCongressional Leadership Holds Medal of Honor Ceremony for Police Who Served on January 6, Washington, District of Columbia, United States - 06 Dec 2022
EditorialA photo provided by Smithsonian shows the Jacob Jones sinking after being attacked by a German submarine on Dec. 6, 1917. (Smithsonian via The New York Times) — EDITORIAL USE ONLY —
EditorialSupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in a lecture named in her honor at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, Oct. 30, 2019. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The New York Times)
EditorialCorine Wegener, director of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, and Col. Scott DeJesse, who have been helping the U.S. Army hire and train specialists to protect cultural treasures, in Tampa, Fla., Oct. 19, 2019. (Zack Wittman/The New York Times)
EditorialRevolutionary War Sergent Ezra Lee attacking HMS Eagle in the first military submarine service in New York harbour on September 7, 1776. Watercolour; 19th century. Turtle was the first American submarine, invented in Connecticut in 1775 by David Bush...
EditorialThe Southern Railway 1401 train on display at the Smithsonian American History Museum in Washington, Nov. 12, 2021. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Hubble Space Telescope being deployed in 1990, a success story of the Decadal Survey. (NASA/Smithsonian Institution/Lockheed Corporation via The New York Times)