Both Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd ate corn bread as children. He ate it from necessity; she ate it from tradition. The circumstances of their childhoods produced very different recipes. As adults, ...

The first thing that should happen when you walk into a museum is that six big men, weeping, should take your coat and tell ...

President Trump is slamming the Smithsonian for focusing on negative aspects of American history, including "how bad slavery ...

America’s largest retailer, Walmart is raising prices because of tariffs. CEO Doug McMillon said that tariffs have created ...

Four years ago I chided Poland and its leaders for whitewashing its history. It got the Sun-Times sued. Now the United States ...

VISITING What to know: The museum is open seven days a week, except Dec. 25, between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Admission is free, and passes are not required. For more information, go to ...

Donald Trump is suddenly backing away from a major detail about the planned meeting between the warring leaders.

Special Assistant to the President Lindsey Halligan said the Smithsonian museums had become "laboratories for political experiments." ...

President Trump — who regularly denounces anything he dislikes as “fake news,” even when it is accurate — is now demanding ...

President Trump — who regularly denounces anything he dislikes as “fake news,” even when it is accurate — is now demanding that Smithsonian Institution museums undergo an overhaul to present a fake ...

President Donald Trump has been moving to take greater control over the Smithsonian Institution and said earlier this week that the organization focuses too much on “how bad slavery was.” ...

Only a racist would dare to defend or dismiss slavery, which stripped Africans of human rights and enslaved them as chattel to pick cotton on Southern plantations. They were often whipped and — in the ...