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

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

The president’s recent executive order directed at the institution will face a lot of procedural headwinds before he can MAGA ...

Located in a preserved 1930s development in Chicago's West Side, the museum includes three recreated apartments representing ...

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

Speaking specifically about the Smithsonian, in his executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” Trump claims that the nation museum system’s telling of America ...

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

The order singles out for criticism the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the forthcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. The administration’s war on the ...

Germany, under Hitler’s rule, was to be tied in narrative to a millennium that skipped recent European history and stretched ...

A heated email exchange between Richard Grenell, the interim head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and ...