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

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

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

The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public backlash over ...

President Donald Trump is interfering with a jewel in our nation’s cultural crown, the 178-year-old Smithsonian Institution. Established by Congress in 1846 and based in Was ...

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

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

President Trump has doubled down on his promise to eliminate polarizing language by ordering changes to the content of 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.

Of all the museums that make up the Smithsonian Institution, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the one that speaks ...