Aleš Hrdlička is known as the founder of forensic anthropology, and remains a huge part of the story of the history of anthropology as a science. But his legacy of racism and just bad science is one that this field has been reckoning...

Biologist Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, using video cameras recording at 20,000 frames per second.

In 1955, a 14 year old boy named Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Money, Mississippi. The white men who murdered him killed him for being Black. Emmett Till's mother chose to have an open casket funeral, and show the world what had...

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The powerful and privileged have hoarded precious artifacts in museums for centuries, and it's only recently that these treasures were made available to the rest of us. What purpose did museums serve? And why does every city have one today?

Leslie T. Fenwick, PhD, is a nationally-known education policy and leadership studies scholar who served as Dean of the Howard University School of Education for nearly a decade. A former Visiting Scholar and Visiting Fellow at Harvard...

What's it take to execute a long-term project through Democratic and Republican administrations - and come out the other end with a win.

You can improve your English vocabulary and English pronunciation by studying these vocabulary words, repeating them along with me to master each sound. We’ll study each word by focusing on how Americans actually pronounce it, and we’ll...

Libya’s National Museum has reopened to the public for the first time since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, following extensive renovation work that began in March 2023, marking a major step in preserving the country’s cultural...

Supporters of the Smithsonian museums in the US push back against the Trump administration's plans to target racial diversity.

Czech National Museum Director General Michal Lukeš called the loan “a unique insight into the past” and a chance to deepen understanding of humanity’s roots.

The tree was a symbol of freedom and had been a national landmark for centuries.

Dancers in Qatar are pushing the boundaries of what makes a performance venue.

After more than 130 years - the remains of dozens of indigenous New Zealanders are brought home from Austria.

The Smithsonian was tasked this year with bringing the first museum dedicated to the American Latino experience to Washington, DC. Antonio Argibay, board member and friend of the National Museum of the American Latino, joined Cheddar for...

Historians at the University of Chicago and teachers in Afghanistan are working to save artefacts looted or destroyed during four decades of war or under strict Taliban rule.

Rising from the ashes. Indonesia's national museum re-opens its doors - a year after a devastating fire.

Brazil has formally accepted the return of a sacred cloak made by indigenous people, after it spent centuries in Europe.

Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, is investing heavily in cultural attractions as part of a push to boost tourism in the once sleepy, oil-rich emirate. In an interview for "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer...

VOICED : Fading splendour of Pakistani Mughal mosque

"Just preserving artifacts of history is important because they just tell us where we came from."

H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani discusses the upcoming FIFA World Cup Finals 2022 and how sports and culture can be a driving force for economic growth, community enrichment and people-to-people diplomacy with...