The distance in the march from the American Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence is almost beyond comprehension.

Lonnie Bunch III said Tuesday that he will retire as the head of the Smithsonian Institution, a role that placed him at the center of President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape the world’s largest ...

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian's first Black secretary, said President Donald Trump's pressure played no role in his decision and vowed to defend the institution's independence until he leaves.

President Trump asked the Smithsonian Institution in late Friday social media posts to install a 30-foot-tall statue of George Washington outside of its National Museum of American History (NMAH) and ...

In 2019, Bunch became both the first historian and the first African American to serve as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. As he prepares to retire, he talks about the museums' mission to ...

“I leave with pride and sadness,” Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III said Tuesday, Sept. 8 ...

The head of the Smithsonian Institution announced his retirement Tuesday, stepping down amid an escalating clash with the Trump administration over the leadership and direction of the nation’s museums ...

As the Smithsonian Institution prepares to launch a nationwide search for a new leader, an unexpected question mark hangs over the position that’s long been considered a plum one in the worlds of art, ...

Section 1. Policy. On March 27, 2025, I issued Executive Order 14253 (Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History). Pursuant to that order, the Domestic Policy Council recently completed a ...

“That strange modernist sculpture tells visitors nothing about America,” Trump wrote in part of the historic art piece completed in 1967 ...

Historian Lonnie Bunch will leave his position as secretary of the Smithsonian at the end of the year, he announced Tuesday.