For 178 years, the Smithsonian Institution and its 21 museums, 21 libraries, 14 education and resource centers, National Zoo, and other affiliates have been responsible for chronicling and displaying ...

Trump singled out a few museums, including the Smithsonian, dedicating a whole section of an executive order on 'saving' the institution from 'divisive, race-centered ideology.' ...

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

As a part of its plan to wreck the democratic principles embedded in American culture, the Trump administration issued an ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We remain steadfast in our mission to bring history ... document that should be at the Smithsonian,” he said, while also defending the institution’s role in helping the nation grapple ...

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 ...

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

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 ...