Fish don’t exist. In her novel “Why Fish Don’t Exist,” Lulu Miller points out that a true “fish” clade containing an ancestor ...

Kevin Young, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is on personal leave amid political scrutiny and calls to reshape national cultural narratives.

A new White House executive order says the exhibition is an example of how the Smithsonian portrays "American and Western ...

The exhibition, “It’s in the Mail,” opening April 12 at the Museum of Sonoma County, celebrates the Wiseman flight with a 1/2 ...

The administration’s move to defund the Institute of Museum and Library Services is reminiscent of what Hitler did to German ...

The Post reported that a museum spokesperson said Young would be out for an "undetermined period." Young has been director of the museum, one of many run by the Smithsonian Instit ...

When people’s stories are obliterated, their rights are not far behind, writes the CEO of the Jewish Women’s Archive.

Trump’s order, entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” is in fact a directive to promote selective truths to create, by sins of omission, a false narrative — turning our layered ...

I teach history in Connecticut, but I grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas, where my interest in the subject was sparked by visits ...

For nearly a decade, scholars of fascism have tried to explain the ways in which Trumpism reflects fascist ideology.

Proposed cuts to a little-known federal agency could be “devastating” for library and museum patrons in Washington, ...

Researchers at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) have uncovered three distinct groups of long-billed curlews, a North American migratory shorebird facing ...