Benjamin first encountered the performance of electricity experiments on a trip to his childhood home in Boston in 1746. There, he saw a lecture by a Dr. Spence from Scotland who “imperfectly ...

History is neither positive or negative — it just is. And it should be presented without fear, favor, or Trump’s white ...

Eighty years later, a San Fransciso street photographer's candid picture of two happy sailors on V-J Day has become a ...

You may have seen that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision by Republican appointees Karen Henderson and ...

Scholars are pushing back against the Trump administration’s plan to conduct a "comprehensive internal review" of the ...

Rod Zeitler is likely the winningest canning competitor at the Iowa State Fair. Now, more than 700 of his Blue Ribbon jars are off to the Smithsonian.

President Donald Trump visited the Kennedy Center on Wednesday to unveil the next recipients of its hallmark honors — and ...

The White House is ordering a wide-ranging review of the Smithsonian museums and exhibitions ahead of the country's 250th birthday with a goal of aligning the institution's content with President ...

CNN's Scott Jennings argued many critics of Trump's Smithsonian review are hypocritical for previously cheering monument ...

Kiss have reacted to US President Trump's announcement that they're to be recipients of this year's Kennedy Center Honors, alongside soul diva Gloria Gaynor, country star George Strait, and actors ...

Trump has made revamping the Kennedy Center — and what he calls its “woke” agenda — the center of an ongoing push to overhaul such cultural institutions as the National Endowment of the Humanities and ...

The White House said the goal is to align the institution's content with American history and President Donald Trump.