The president’s executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its ...

Librarians and museum leaders warn key programs are at risk as Trump targets the Institute of Museum and Library Services ...

US President Donald Trump accuses the Smithsonian Institution of propagating "divisive, race-based ideology" and issued an ...

Most recent debates center on how much attention should be given to the history of the nation’s accomplishments over its ...

History is contested. There will always be a variety of views about what should be included and excluded from America’s story ...

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

Following his most recent executive order, I went in search of some “corrosive ideology.” ...

Kevin Young, who has led the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, went on leave before the ...

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

It’s impossible for the Smithsonian to truthfully tell the American story without mentioning racism, sexism and other forms ...