The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.

Most recent debates center on how much attention should be given to the history of the nation’s accomplishments over its ...

Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and Homo ...

Last week, in an executive order aimed at the Smithsonian Institution ... executive at both the Atlanta History Center and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

The parakeets commonly kept as pets could offer fresh clues about vocal learning and potential treatments for speech disorders ...

with abhorrent human consequences. The administration’s assault on the Smithsonian, ordering JD Vance to make institutions like the National Museum of African American History and Culture more ...