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Badly damaged during the Battle of Valcour Island, the "Philadelphia" is now the focus of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian ...

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When the new Cotoni-Coast Dairies national monument opened to the public on August 16, the 5,800-acre property officially ...

The Iowa State Fair has featured a bovine butter sculpture for more than 100 years. Now, the tradition is part of the new ...

The creatures, which ranged in size from that of a fox to more than 50 feet long, divided their time between the coast and ...

In 1774, 51 North Carolinian women led by Penelope Barker signed a resolution supporting the boycott of British goods ...

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During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.