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 ...

President Trump threatened to block funding for Smithsonian exhibitions that discuss racism and ordered the restoration of ...

By Graham Bowley Jennifer Schuessler and Robin Pogrebin Kevin Young, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, stepped down on Friday after four ...

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 ...

When Mr. Bunch appeared at the 2023 hearing, he testified that he had been unaware of the drag events, called those aimed at children ... Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum should ...

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

The idea for a national museum of African American history and culture had been around for 100 years. When the project for ...