The American Museum of the Latino faces more hurdles after over two decades of advocacy. Congress passed legislation to allow ...

From its beginning in Wright’s Detroit basement, the museum has cultivated increased visibility for all African Americans by ...

Bailey was born in Newport News, Va. in 1917. In the 1930s, she moved to North Philadelphia’s 1946 N. 23rd Street — a blue ...

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 ...

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

President Trump has doubled down on his promise to eliminate polarizing language by ordering changes to the content of the ...

Edits to webpages appear to be part of the administration's effort to whitewash certain portions of American history related ...

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture will honor the extraordinary, history maker and ...

The African American Museum in Philadelphia presents “Demond Melancon: As Any Means Are Necessary,” one of two new ...

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

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.

Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, ...