Trump singled out a few museums, including the Smithsonian, dedicating a whole section of an executive order on 'saving' the ...

The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.

Raj Tawney, an essayist and journalist who writes about family, food and culture, is the author of “Colorful Palate: A ...

President Trump targets museums he said push divisive ideology. Activists and historians say he's trying to erase the ...

The president’s executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its ...

Various Smithsonian museums are similarly ... to create an installation that described the many roles of the First Lady throughout our history. Most of our visitors see the interpretation as ...

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way ... But there are other stories involving the role that enslaved Africans and Southern colonists played in launching and ...

At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, for example, the exhibit on “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which dates to 1964, is refreshingly devoid of ideological baggage and comes across as ...

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" targets the Smithsonian ... long been celebrated as a role model to aspiring Black ...

President Donald Trump wasn’t always at loggerheads with the museums that make up the Smithsonian Institute ... National African American Museum of History and Culture for a tour with its ...

Upset by exhibits that reference the role of racism ... exhibit won't precipitate a major crisis. But the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History includes an extensive anthropology collection ...

History museums play a crucial role in educating the public and fostering ... by reconstructing the storied institutions of the Smithsonian marks his administration’s most flagrant assault ...