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

The leader of the Smithsonian may be one of the few leaders fearless enough to navigate Donald Trump’s attacks on the arts.

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

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.

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

The president has issued an executive order to control Smithsonian exhibits and restore removed statues linked to slavery ...

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

Pioneers in the science of "de-extinction," an American company has announced the births of three pups whose genes resemble ...

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

Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and founding director of the National Museum of African ...

Many Black Americans are not surprised by the way Trump is running roughshod over the rule of law, because they have seen it ...

The National Park Service edited a page on its website that describes the Underground Railroad to reduce the emphasis on ...