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First encouraged in World War I and then again in the 1940s, with World War II , people turned to growing their own food with ...
Given how huge some productions are, and the coordination it takes to make a big Hollywood movie, it's actually amazing more ...
The Statue of Liberty, France's gift to the U.S., was originally viewed as a tribute to the end of slavery. But poet Emma ...
The Trump White House blasted the Smithsonian for pushing “one-sided, divisive political narratives" in an exclusive email to ...
Weitzel received his doctorate at UConn, where he studied the history of the deer population in the Connecticut River Valley.
In Festival lingo, we call this “thinking outside the tent”—that is, coming up with an idea that extends interpretation past the usual show-and-tell to involve visitors in a creative learning ...
As predicted, Donald Trump’s attempt at flexing his might at The Smithsonian is hitting some snarls; plus, Blake takes The Odeon, and more in this week’s column.
Baker writes damningly about the intellectual cowardice and inconsistency that set the stage for the city of ’s and University of Virginia’s mismanagement of Unite the Right: At both the march and the ...
Smithsonian says it’s committed to being free from ‘partisan influence’ after Trump tries to remove gallery director ...
Backers of a planned Smithsonian museum honoring American Latinos are concerned the president's budget proposes to end money for the project.
A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.
It was on Bunch’s watch as secretary of the Smithsonian that the museum installed, but then was forced to remove under public pressure, a chart depicting “Self-reliance,” “Objective, rational linear ...