For his first term on the Republican ticket, William McKinley ran on a largely pro-gold platform but reserved some possibility for bimetallism. McKinley won his first term in the greatest electoral ...

Gracias a su carrera militar, William Henry Harrison se convirtió en el favorito del partido Whig, una nueva facción política armada por la oposición a Andrew Jackson. A pesar de sus raíces ...

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is pleased to present a collection of 9 models that were created using images generated by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The launch of this collection ...

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Explore winter in all its forms, from a wide landscape to a photograph of a single snowflake. We’ll bring the art; you bring the hot chocolate.

A polygon is regular if it is uniform and its faces are all alike. The regular convex polyhedra are the five Platonic solids, which have been known since classical Greece. The ancient Greek ...

The Molina Family Latino Gallery has been nearly a decade in the making. “When we started contemplating a gallery, it was the gallery of no—no plan, no space, no project manager, no money,” explains ...

Exploration reveals that our solar system is filled with amazingly diverse places that transform our understanding of Earth and worlds beyond. The Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery ...

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Thomas McKenney, United States superintendent of Indian trade in Georgetown, then port of entry for the District of Columbia, conceived the idea of developing a government collection of portraits of ...

Users can access the Smithsonian's collection data made by Smithsonian staff since 1846 via a GitHub repository. Detailed documentation is available along with the data formatted in .JSON. Please note ...

A Southerner and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson rode the Progressive Movement into the White House in 1912. For his second term campaign in 1916, he promised to keep the USA neutral and not to enter WWI.