After just cutting more than 1,000 grants, the National Endowment for the Humanities is recruiting artists to create 250 ...

So successful was the Lost Cause propaganda campaign that most Americans forgot the true meaning of the Civil War.

What we think of today as the Confederate flag remains a symbol of white supremacy and antigovernment ideology.

A group is proposing to erect a statue of former Frederick Mayor Ron Young in Carroll Creek Linear Park, a park he helped ...

That image figures prominently in Isaac Julien's video installation Baltimore (2003), one of 13 transfixing works in Julien's ...

The president is likely to tap into his worst instincts when deciding whom to, quite literally, put on a prominent pedestal.

If the Trump administration cared so much about antisemitism, it wouldn't go after the National Endowment for the Humanities ...

Black history is everywhere. From oral traditions, written records, and acclaimed museums to weathered buildings, bronze ...

A historian focused on Jewish history for more than four decades wonders what will happen to Jewish stories now that many of ...

Lonnie G. Bunch III has never been afraid to address white supremacy. The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums and the founding director of the National Museum of African ...

The exhibit was “Freedom Matters,” and it was all about the winding, bumpy road the idea of freedom has taken since its birth ...