President Trump's plans to police DEI language and control the Kennedy Center show an intent to use the government's enormous ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Americans have a message for the penny: Good riddance. Around the country, people of all ages are ...

Happy Valentine’s week, DC! Share the love with your boo or your besties this week at a Valentine’s dinner or show. There’s also the return of fun annual events such as Alexandria’s George Washington ...

The Nye Museum in East Sandwich has been selected as one of six sites in Massachusetts to display the Smithsonian’s “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America” traveling exhibit, beginning later ...

More than 24,000 people have signed the Change.org petition requesting that the museum add Chapman’s story to approximately ...

The U.S. is full of archaeological sites, "but in most cases you could be standing right on top of one and never know it," Elic Weitzel told Newsweek.

Indiana Humanities is now accepting applications for one of the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibits to visit small Indiana towns ...

The initiative, dubbed “Being Human,” will include exhibits, a digital series, and other events that aim to “examine the ...

Frédérique Irwin, CEO of the National Women's History Museum, aims to make women's historical representation resonate with younger generations.

Peter Bentzon (ca. 1783–after 1850) was not only a free man; he was also a silversmith and jeweler who worked in Philadelphia and on the Caribbean island of St. Croix. Bentzon’s work is recognized ...

The investigation was a global endeavor that led to a Post series exposing the Smithsonian's “racial brain collection.” ...

The first Medal of Honor earned by an African American, and some of the slave shackles that they have on display, just poignant pieces of American history,” Davis said.