Four years ago I chided Poland and its leaders for whitewashing its history. It got the Sun-Times sued. Now the United States ...

VISITING What to know: The museum is open seven days a week, except Dec. 25, between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Admission is free, and passes are not required. For more information, go to ...

Special Assistant to the President Lindsey Halligan said the Smithsonian museums had become "laboratories for political experiments." ...

P resident Trump — who regularly denounces anything he dislikes as “fake news,” even when it is accurate — is now demanding ...

President Donald Trump has been moving to take greater control over the Smithsonian Institution and said earlier this week that the organization focuses too much on “how bad slavery was.” ...

Only a racist would dare to defend or dismiss slavery, which stripped Africans of human rights and enslaved them as chattel to pick cotton on Southern plantations. They were often whipped and — in the ...

Some of President Donald Trump’s ill-advised actions would be more shocking if there weren’t so many of them. But how much consternation can you expend over Trump’s firing of the commissioner of the B ...

Texas poised to hand GOP redistricting win … Trump ally seeks DOJ probe of Fed governor … Smithsonian under administration ...

President Trump confirmed the White House is doing a review Smithsonian museums, where he complained "everything discussed is how horrible our Country is." ...

The Trump administration has stepped up its antagonism of America’s treasured museums. But conservative antipathy toward the ...

The president seems bent on eradicating the painful and defining legacy of slavery from American history. But at what cost?