Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has introduced a bill directing the Smithsonian Institution to display the Trump administration’s “propaganda” in the National Museum of American History. The legislation ...

A new Smithsonian exhibit is exploring complex American stories as the institution faces a new White House challenge to how it tells the nation's history. The big picture: The Trump administration is ...

Democrat Jamie Raskin’s proposed bill asks the institution to preserve items related to Trump’s “propagandistic assault on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Smithsonian Scientific Diving Program (SDP) is housed within the Office of Safety, Health, and Environmental Management ...

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

The Smithsonian’s flagship podcast, Sidedoor, returns today, Wednesday, Oct. 7, for its 13th season as it celebrates 10 years of storytelling. Hosted by senior producer Lizzie Peabody, the ...

The Smithsonian Institution has long claimed a special place in American life as a repository of the nation’s accomplishments and a source of inspiration for the world. Lonnie Bunch, who resigned this ...

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 ...

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 ...