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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 ...
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 ...
How does the Smithsonian work, and can President Trump control how they represent race, sex, and American history in its ...
Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.
The National Park Service edited a page on its website that describes the Underground Railroad to reduce the emphasis on ...
National Endowment for the Humanities funds — which were halted this week — represent about 80% of the longtime cultural ...
The National Parks Service (NPS) has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the ...