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Oscar nominee warns ‘truth itself is under revision’ while receiving award at Smithsonian American history museum

United States President Donald Trump and his administration have set their sights on the “tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies,” firing federal staff and purging public institutions like the Smithsonian of their commitments to racial history.

Space shuttle Discovery may be removed from the Smithsonian and put on display at Space Center Houston, if two senators from Texas get their way.

In the recent flurry of executive orders from President Donald Trump, one warned of “a distorted narrative” about race “driven by ideology rather than truth.” It singled out a current exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum titled “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture” as an…

The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public backlash over the changes

"You can't make America great again if you don't acknowledge all the things that America is"

Some worry anti-DEI movement will slow progress on the two museums approved in 2020 by Congress and President Donald Trump.

Kevin Young has been absent since 14 March, weeks before president’s order taking aim at ‘anti-American’ content

I teach history in Connecticut, but I grew up in Oklahoma and Kansas, where my interest in the subject was sparked by visits to local museums.