Many hope it will answer a question that has long divided Americans and the country’s understanding of its history: Who exactly was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb?

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Robert Peace was a Yale graduate who was shot and killed inside a Newark basement in New Jersey. However, there's more to his ...

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Robert J. Aumann isn’t only famous for his long white beard and deep sense of wisdom. He’s also renowned for a string of controversies. On one hand, his strong political views on the Middle East ...

John Krasinski, who has been named People’s Sexiest Man Alive, joked that his wife, Emily Blunt, will probably ask him to do more household chores as a result. Tim Matheson talks Alec Baldwin ...

Jennie Rothenberg Gritz is a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine. She was previously a senior editor at the Atlantic. Written by Smithsonian botanist W. John Kress, the book details more than ...

“The World According to Allee Willis” shines a light on a musical artist whose creative spirit wasn’t limited to one genre or even to music. By Alissa Wilkinson In Payal Kapadia’s ...

Mike Tyson, of Brooklyn, New York, is a former heavyweight lineal champion known as "The Baddest Man on the Planet." Tyson, the youngest man to ever win a heavyweight title, retired in 2005, but ...