The exhibit also highlighted the remarkable role women have played in America’s history. It included a 1931 edition of the ...

Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...

Kay Ochi’s parents were 21 and 22 years old when they were forced to leave San Diego, where they were born, and taken to an incarceration camp in the desert of Poston, Arizona, simply because of their ...

"They've started to view these (demonstrations) as against the rules," said Elliot Field, a sophomore at Kadena High School ...

Today the Smithsonian runs 14 education and research centers, the National Zoo and 21 museums, including the National ...

The Trump administration’s erasures are a deliberate whitewash of inconvenient American historical truths to create its ...

Washington's Smithsonian is a sprawling chain of museums dedicated to both celebrating and scrutinizing the American story -- and the latest cultural institution targeted by President Donald Trump's ...

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The National Museum of African American History and Culture was accused in the order of attempting to portray "American and Western culture as harmful." Smithsonian officials and several ...

An American former executive of a large Japanese brokerage who has been criminally charged in Japan asked a court to rule him innocent, and said the outcome of his trial will have bearings on the ...