When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's ...

Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Tuesday, April 15th, 2025. This is The Excerpt. Today, El Salvador's president says a wrongly deported man will not be leaving a Salvadoran prison, plus ...

President Trump targets museums he said push divisive ideology. Activists and historians say he's trying to erase the ...

From a sudden grant termination threatening Boston’s Museum of African American History to outrage over a viral defense campaign in Texas, here are the stories shaping headlines this week ...

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

Stadiums are where history is made – sites of protest and celebration, shared experiences. Now, new formats are emerging: with rooftop gardens, cafes, timber work, walkways.

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

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

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

The president’s executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its ...

Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC ... In 2016, he became ...