Narratives of institutional neglect and personal tragedy dominate the annals of American public housing ... “It’s now a history museum that meets a world-class art museum, which is what ...

Collector's Encyclopedia ... Cooper-Hewitt Museum. American Art Pottery. New York: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, The Smithsonian's National Museum of Design, 1987. Darling, Sharon S. Chicago Ceramics & Glass: ...

"So the thought of digging up American history with my own hands was very ... largely given over to archaeological research, with few visual links to the past. Kelso and a full-time staff of ...

Vinyl records in their original sleeves form a visual encyclopedia of changing graphic design ... Model trains line wooden shelves like an organized timeline of American rail history, each engine ...

As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s ...

In a letter to Vice President JD Vance, four U.S. representatives on a committee that oversees the cultural institution urged him to reject President Trump’s push to reshape it.

The order is vague but suggests Trump is seeking to purge elements of what conservatives view as a revisionist history of the US that places systemic racism at the heart of its narrative.

“That's why you go to the Smithsonian. That's why you go to spaces that are trying to fill those gaps." In Trump's recent order, “Restoring truth and sanity to American history," he complained ...

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

At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, for example, the exhibit on “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which dates to 1964, is refreshingly devoid of ideological baggage and comes across as ...

Trump's executive order targeting the Smithsonian, especially the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is an attempt to rewrite American history. The order reflects insecurity ...

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