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In a letter to Vice President JD Vance, four U.S. representatives on a committee that oversees the cultural institution urged ...
Because the Smithsonian can receive private funding, it is not entirely in trouble-but the long-term effects remain unclear.
The president’s executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its ...
President Trump threatened to block funding for Smithsonian exhibitions that discuss racism and ordered the restoration of monuments taken down because of their celebration of racist figures.
Trump signed an executive order, which called for the removal of “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and re ...
President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance “divisive narratives” ...
The top Democrat of the House Administration Committee, Rep. Joe Morelle, and other Democrats who have oversight of the ...
Current and former members of the Smithsonian’s board of regents condemned the edict, while visitors said the Trump administration was trying to edit U.S. history.
The order is vague but suggests Trump is seeking to purge elements of what conservatives view as a revisionist history of the US that places systemic racism at the heart of its narrative.
Major changes could be coming to Smithsonian museums with President Trump’s latest executive order to remove what he calls “improper ideology.” The executive order says, “The Smithsonian Institution ...
Bunch III, the first African American to lead the Smithsonian Institution, was as much a message of reassurance as a call to vigilance. Following President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order ...
President Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order Thursday that targets funding to programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ...