Thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolution began 250 years ago, as the country looks back to its war of ...

Latino museum to spotlight history. The Latino museum and other Smithsonian institutions have long received bipartisan ...

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

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's ...

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

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

The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground ...

The National Park Service edited a page on its website that describes the Underground Railroad to reduce the emphasis on ...

Two new Smithsonian museums meant to honor the contributions of women and Latinos have been tied up for years as fights over their location and content have raged.

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