Asian American History

Hazel Ying Lee (right) and fellow pilot Virginia Wong (left)

HISTORY

This Chinese American Aviatrix Overcame Racism to Fly for the U.S. During World War II

The Granada Relocation Center, also known as Amache, had cramped Army-style barracks that housed thousands of Japanese Americans and people of Japanese descent.

SMART NEWS

A Japanese American Incarceration Camp in Colorado Is America’s Newest National Park

A 1942 Memorial Day service at Manzanar, a Japanese American incarceration camp in California

AT THE SMITHSONIAN

How a 1924 Immigration Act Laid the Groundwork for Japanese American Incarceration

Black History

The machine features a ceramic countertop and two parallel rollers—one that's covered with small nubs.

SMART NEWS

Historians Say They've Solved the Mystery of a Curious 100-Year-Old Contraption Discovered in Storage

Harriet Tubman served in several roles in the Union Army, becoming the first American woman to oversee military action in a time of war.

SMART NEWS

Harriet Tubman Just Became a One-Star General, More Than 150 Years After Serving With the Union Army

Reflecting on Romare Bearden's art, playwright August Wilson wrote, “What I saw was Black life presented on its own terms, on a grand and epic scale, with all its richness and fullness.”

HISTORY

The Surprising Artwork That Inspired Netflix's 'The Piano Lesson,' a New Movie Based on August Wilson's Award-Winning Play

Latino American History

A couple visits a cemetery during Day of the Dead, against the backdrop of storm clouds.

ARTS & CULTURE

Celebrate Day of the Dead With These 15 Scenes of Festivities and Remembrance

Beginning in the early 20th century, Marfa's Mexican and Mexican American students attended the one-story adobe school up to ninth grade.

SMART NEWS

New National Park Site Spotlights School Segregation in Texas

The cemetery is located near a Spanish colonial church built in Huanchaco, Peru, around 1535.

SMART NEWS

16th-Century Skeletons of Children Infected With Smallpox Discovered in Peru

Native American History

President Joe Biden formally apologized on October 25 for the government's role in sending thousands of Native American children to federal boarding schools.

SMART NEWS

Biden Issues a 'Long Overdue' Formal Apology for Native American Boarding Schools

Phil Little Thunder, a great-great-grandchild of the Lakota chief whose village was attacked in 1855. An ancient cottonwood known as the Witness Tree, right, still stands.

HISTORY

How Recovering the History of a Little-Known Lakota Massacre Could Heal Generational Pain

Aerial view of Government Point, located within Point Conception State Marine Reserve and the newly designated Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary

SMART NEWS

A New Marine Sanctuary Off California Will Be Co-Managed by Indigenous Peoples