The president’s executive order pushing the museum to start honoring American history again is a welcome step.

How does the Smithsonian work, and can President Trump control how they represent race, sex, and American history in its ...

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

The Smithsonian is a public-private partnership built and sustained over the decades with support from Americans of every ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

Trump’s decision to clean house at the Smithsonian Institution is a necessary next step in his ongoing crusade to claw back ...

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.

Recent changes by the Trump administration are affecting how US museums and institutions tell the nation's multicultural ...

The president may not like how the museum and research institution tells the American story — but Americans do.

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

The president has issued an executive order to control Smithsonian exhibits and restore removed statues linked to slavery ...

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