Funding for the report was provided by the Andrew Mellon, Alice L. Walton and Ford Foundations. In 2023, Mellon committed ...

Jeff Smith joined Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y, as a senior investment officer on April 8, a spokesperson confirmed in an ...

The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope ...

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

Community celebrations being planned to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary next year are at risk of being ...

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

Changes in the name of preserving President Donald Trump’s version of American history, experts say, would minimize the ...

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

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.

The National Park Service edited a page on its website that describes the Underground Railroad to reduce the emphasis on ...