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Smithsonian Magazine takes you on a journey through history, science, world culture and technology with breathtaking images from around the world.

Side by Side • A NEW EXHIBITION AT THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM REUNITES THE WORK OF TWO PIONEERING 19TH-CENTURY ARTISTS

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Command Center • From these modest wartime quarters, George Washington kept the Revolution alive

Right-Hand Men • THE GENERAL’S TRUSTY MILITARY ASSISTANTS WENT ON TO SHAPE THE YOUNG COUNTRY

A FEAST FOR THE SENSES • A sumptuous new exhibition of Islamic art aims to leave museumgoers hungry for more

A Whole New Music • In the most American recording in history, one of our greatest jazzmen raised the stakes for everyone who came after

The Key to Spirituality • A CHURCH IN SAN FRANCISCO GIVES NEW MEANING TO THE TERM “GOSPEL MUSIC”

Second Nature • A new generation is discovering the rambling Southern route of the country’s first great environmentalist

MAKING A RACKET • How an obscure paddle sport became king of the court

Heads Up! • How an eye-popping museum specimen boosted the beleaguered blue whale

The Writing on the Wall • WITH HELP FROM A NOW-EXTINCT BEAR, ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE UNLOCKED THE MYSTERIES OF SPAIN’S COVA DONES

TRACING a LOST ANCESTRY • For millions of enslaved people, bondage stole more than freedom—it severed a link to the past. Now their descendants are finding new ways to recover their heritage

HOME COMING • ADA ANAGHO BROWN CONNECTS AFRICAN AMERICANS WITH THE LANDS AND CULTURES THEIR FOREBEARS WERE FORCED TO LEAVE BEHIND

CIVIL WAR HISTORY, REFRAMED • A BOLD NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT CELEBRATES BLACK HEROES OF THE CONFLICT THAT TRANSFORMED THE NATION

ORIGIN STORIES • IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL BLACK COMMUNITY ARE TEAMING UP WITH SCIENTISTS TO PRODUCE A NOVEL STUDY OF THE TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

THE LEATHER BACK GUARDIANS • In Panama, conservationists are tracking endangered turtles—and fighting for their legal rights

NO PLACE LIKE HOME • NOW IN SELF - IMPOSED EXILE IN PORTUGAL, ARTIST AI WEIWEI IS CONSTRUCTING A MASSIVE EDIFICE THAT CAPTURES HIS EARLIEST AMBITIONS — AND HIS LOVE FOR THE COUNTRY HE CAN’T RETURN TO YET CAN’T SEEM TO FORGET

Running Mates • As giraffe populations plummet across Africa, scientists have designed an ingenious method to study and protect them

UNDER THE SURFACE • AT CRIME SCENES AROUND THE WORLD, THE FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGIST PAOLA MAGNI IS TAKING THE STUDY OF BUGS INTO UNCHARTED WATERS

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