Critics see the Trump-ordered review of public displays as an effort to whitewash dark eras of American history.

The name of the sitting U.S. president was never uttered during Thursday night’s New York premiere of Ken Burns’s PBS ...

The Trump/MAGA/White Supremacist administration is ordering the removal of information and depictions of the era of slavery in the United States. One of the most emblematic images of enslavement is ...

If it’s true, then what choice do we have but to blow up the American health care system and remake it from top to bottom?

Pleasant T. Rowland aimed to make heirlooms when she created American Girls after an aha moment in Colonial Williamsburg. The ...

Discover the surprising global origins of apple pie! From Europe to America, read on to explore how this classic dessert ...

As museums across the country face pressures to scale back a purported “overemphasis” on difficult subjects like slavery, experts warn such moves could diminish American exceptionalism and limit ...

Eric Foner’s essay collection “Our Fragile Freedoms” demonstrates how our understanding of the past can deepen and grow more ...

Trump once praised the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Now it's at the center of his targeting of the Smithsonian.

Here are a heaping handful of players and teams that could be about to make history — in weird ways — before the end of the ...

"Any history is a complex story, just like we all are," writes Mike Matejka, who serves on the McLean County Museum of ...

When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The ...