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

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

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

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

Recent changes by the Trump administration are affecting how US museums and institutions tell the nation's multicultural ...

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

Trump's executive order threatens the Smithsonian Institution's mission to showcase America's history, including Black history, potentially erasing its presence.

Critics of the order argue that more than just funding could be at stake. Last week, President Donald Trump took aim at the Smithsonian Institution, issuing an executive order titled “Restoring ...

Because the Smithsonian can receive private funding, it is not entirely in trouble-but the long-term effects remain unclear.

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

Trump’s decision to clean house at the Smithsonian Institution is a necessary next step in his ongoing crusade to claw back ...