This article concerns the background and controversy surrounding a series of abolition lectures given at the Smithsonian by the Washington Lecture Association (WLA) from December 1861 to April 1862.

The twenty-second Arthur Lecture is delivered in the auditorium of the National Museum of Natural History on April 27, 1955, by Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain on the ...

Smithsonian’s educational travel program was one of the first of its kind when it debuted nationally in 1970, and it quickly found an audience eager to explore places both familiar and far-flung—from ...

The Smithsonian Associates — a division of the Smithsonian Institution — offers educational and cultural experiences to people of all ages in the Washington, DC area. Each year The Smithsonian ...