The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats ...

As President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI agenda turns its attention to the Smithsonian, Kevin Young, the director of the National ...

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

President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” targets the Smithsonian ...

Historians, scholars and museum officials throughout Atlanta and the South fear the order could alter the way American history has been taught and digested for decades.

One, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, removed its director last summer. The third, the forthcoming American Women’s History Museum, named a new leader last year. Representatives for the ...

By Zachary Small and Jennifer Schuessler President Trump intensified his push to impose a more positive view of American history by moving to curb the independence of the Smithsonian Institution ...

Image Then Secretary of the Smithsonian, David Skorton, left, and Mr. Bunch led President Trump on a tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2017.Credit ...

Last week, President Donald Trump took aim at the Smithsonian Institution, issuing an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” It’s a radical effort to remake ...

President Donald Trump has taken aim at the Smithsonian Institution in his latest executive order, titled "Restoring Truth ...

President Trump signed an executive order last week aimed at "restoring truth and sanity to American history" through an overhaul of the Smithsonian Institution and historical sites around the U.S.