Special Report

Race in America

To mark the Smithsonian's multi-year initiative, Our Shared Future: Reckoning With Our Racial Past, which will confront the history and legacy of race and racism through live and virtual events, pop-up exhibitions, digital resources, and other offerings, Smithsonian magazine has compiled this collection of relevant coverage.

The Smithsonian's Race and Our Shared Future: Reckoning With Our Racial Past initiative centers on six pillars. Getty Images

This Filipina Spy Used Her Leprosy as a Cover to Thwart the Japanese During World War II

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

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

Asian American History

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

Theodore S. Gonzalves

Why the Language We Use to Describe Japanese American Incarceration During World War II Matters

Tamiko Nimura, Zócalo Public Square

'Home Alone,' 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' and More Join the National Film Registry

Julia Binswanger

Black History

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Tommie Smith’s Raised Fist at the 1968 Olympics Inspired a Massive Golden Sculpture That Signifies the Art of His Protest

This Little-Known Civil Rights Activist Refused to Give Up His Bus Seat Four Years Before Rosa Parks Did

Black Sailors Exonerated 80 Years After Deadly World War II Disaster

Latino American History

New National Park Site Spotlights School Segregation in Texas

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

Ellen Ochoa, Former NASA Astronaut and First Hispanic Woman in Space, Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

Christian Thorsberg

Native American History

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From Powwows to Smartphones, See the Past and Present of Indigenous Plains Life in Narrative Art

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Could a Robin and a Bluebird Have Babies? And More Questions From Our Readers

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The Forgotten Black Explorers Who Transformed Americans' Understanding of the Wilderness