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Harriet Tubman's great-great-great-grandniece is speaking out after the National Park Service downplayed the Underground ...
The president’s recent executive order directed at the institution will face a lot of procedural headwinds before he can MAGA ...
President Trump’s order specifically targets the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, and there is a lot of Alabama in that museum, more than in many Alabama museums I’ve been to, ...
Trump's threat to withhold federal funds because of "improper ideology" could have a chilling effect on the museum's ...
The president of the state’s Museum of African American History, which has locations in Boston and on Nantucket, is worried ...
The institution forces America to look at its full history. We’re supposed to learn from what we see — not pretend it doesn’t ...
The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.
The president has issued an executive order to control Smithsonian exhibits and restore removed statues linked to slavery ...
How does the Smithsonian work, and can President Trump control how they represent race, sex, and American history in its ...
More than 1,200 grants that support culture and history programs across the country are estimated to have been cut by the ...
Dr. Lapham later created an observation site for the Smithsonian at his home in Milwaukee – which is now where the Fiserv ...
Special thanks to the 2025 Nominating Committee, chaired by Dr. Maria McCauley, PLA Past President (2022–2023), for its ...