Smithsonian Books is publishing Smithson’s Gamble, a new history of the Smithsonian Institution’s early years that covers the ...

The Smithsonian Castle is a beautiful neo-Gothic building towering over the National Mall in Washington DC. “The Castle” is ...

Looking out from the Smithsonian Castle in the middle of the National Mall, one has a bird's-eye view of much of the pageant of American history. Library of Congress One of my predecessors as ...

The leaders of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Germany also weighed in on the tensions between the White House and Smithsonian Castle, framing it in the context of Trump’s broader ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order directing so-called divisive exhibits to be removed from Smithsonian facilities. File Photo by Erik S. Lesser/EPA-EFE ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday taking aim at the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers. Trump directed Vice President JD Vance to eliminate ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday evening promising to eliminate “divisive narratives” from the Smithsonian Institution’s museums and restore “monuments ...