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The Trump administration has stepped up its antagonism of America’s treasured museums. But conservative antipathy toward the ...
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President Trump confirmed the White House is doing a review Smithsonian museums, where he complained "everything discussed is how horrible our Country is." ...
Before Poland’s illiberal Law and Justice party came to power in 2015, the country had been deep in a reckoning over its role in the Holocaust. In 2000, historian Jan Gross published an explosive book ...
It remains to be seen what sort of spin Trump will impose on the less-savory elements of our racial history, but it should concern us that one man is taking control of that narrative. Especially since ...
The president seems bent on eradicating the painful and defining legacy of slavery from American history. But at what cost?
New York Times investigative reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones talks about President Trump's criticism of the Smithsonian, saying the institution focuses too much on "how bad slavery was." ...
Words matter, and I am offended when elected leaders show contempt for the truth and peddle obvious propaganda, and even lie to hide their bigotry.
N.C. Wyeth’s colossal 1932 mural, “Apotheosis of the Family,” re-emerges in a gleaming new round barn after years in storage.
Smithsonian Magazine recently placed the Madison County city in the same league as a California coastal community home to a monarch butterfly pitstop, an Iowa village known for its covered bridges and ...
Live,” a powerful musical documentary on the struggle for women’s suffrage, at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, at the library, 812 ...
President Donald Trump continued to target the Smithsonian museums for noting "how bad slavery was." He launched a review of the museums last week.