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Some items the White House took issue with were on display when USA TODAY visited the museum in late August, though others ...
Trump has a new target for his National Guard crackdown: Memphis, Tennessee. In an appearance yesterday on "Fox & Friends," ...
From universities to museums, President Donald Trump is making a concerted effort to purge institutions of what MAGA ...
Trump signed an executive order rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War. It says a lot about his ...
The Department of the Interior ordered the Park Service to flag anything deemed “inappropriate.” The public was also ...
Trump once praised the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Now it's at the center of his targeting of the Smithsonian.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington explores the complexity of America's past.
Opinion

Trump whitewashes history

A campaign to give a more simplistic, positive spin to the Smithsonian's version of American history is misguided and dangerous.
Liberals were up in arms this week after President Trump said he wanted a review of the Smithsonian Institution — saying its displays were too negative, and too focused on slavery. But Trump isn’t ...
Trump got the health and human services secretary that he deserves, but the country did not,” O’Donnell said after Kennedy’s ...
Critics of President Trump have long condemned his personal attacks on journalists, but especially Black female journalists ...
What does it mean to be an 'American'? Two esteemed historians discuss American identity, in the context of Trump-era debates ...