Robin Pogrebin

In a letter, the Interior Department detailed what it hoped to convey on 12 signs to be installed outside the National Museum of American History.

Lonnie G. Bunch III, who has led the institution since 2019, parried the White House until deciding it was time to go.

With Lonnie G. Bunch III stepping down as the Smithsonian’s secretary, President Trump will have his best chance to control the institution.

Under Lonnie G. Bunch III’s leadership, President Trump accused the Smithsonian of liberal, anti-American bias. Supporters say he was dedicated to nonpartisan scholarship.

In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.

After several delays, George Lucas’s legacy project is finally ready to open. There’s less “Star Wars” than you might expect.

When the New York Historical realized that sunlight in its new wing would potentially damage some items on display, it scrambled to reproduce or remove them.

Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she’s watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.

President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”