President Trump threatened to block funding for Smithsonian exhibitions that discuss racism and ordered the restoration of monuments taken down because of their celebration of racist figures.

Because the Smithsonian can receive private funding, it is not entirely in trouble-but the long-term effects remain unclear.

In a letter to Vice President JD Vance, four U.S. representatives on a committee that oversees the cultural institution urged ...

The top Democrat of the House Administration Committee, Rep. Joe Morelle, and other Democrats who have oversight of the ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance “divisive narratives” ...

Major changes could be coming to Smithsonian museums with President Trump’s latest executive order to remove what he calls “improper ideology.” The executive order says, “The Smithsonian Institution ...

Current and former members of the Smithsonian’s board of regents condemned the edict, while visitors said the Trump administration was trying to edit U.S. history.

Reacting to this trend of portraying America’s history from a leftist perspective in prominent public places, President Trump recently issued an executive order calling for the Smithsonian, as well as ...

The order is vague but suggests Trump is seeking to purge elements of what conservatives view as a revisionist history of the US that places systemic racism at the heart of its narrative.

In an executive order last week, Trump specifically targeted the Smithsonian Institution, saying that his administration would work to root out any "improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology ...

In an executive order last month that accused the Smithsonian of promoting “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive,” President Trump called ...