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White House threatens Smithsonian funds in sweeping content review – The Washington Post
Democracy Dies in Darkness Gift The Post Resubscribe Art White House threatens Smithsonian funds in sweeping content review “American people will have no patience” for any museum that is “uncomfortable conveying a positive view of American history,” read a letter from Trump aides. Updated. December 20, 2025 at 7:13 p.m. EST, yesterday at 7:13 p.m.…
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The Ten Best Children’s Books of 2025 Feature a Story of Untrustworthy Fish and a Tribute to a Beloved Bus Driver – Smithsonian Magazine
The Best Books of 2025 A Smithsonian magazine special report The Ten Best Children’s Books of 2025 Feature a Story of Untrustworthy Fish and a Tribute to a Beloved Bus Driver This year’s top titles run the gamut and include an adaption of a Korean folk tale, a highly entertaining question-and-answer book and much more…
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The Ten Best History Books of 2025 – Smithsonian Magazine
The Ten Best History Books of 2025 Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today By Meilan Solly – Senior Associate Digital Editor, History November 25, 2025 Get our newsletter! Next July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its…
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Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Is Creating a Digital Archive of Exhibits – School Library Journal
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian Is Creating a Digital Archive of Exhibits by Kara Yorio, Oct 03, 2025 | Filed in News & Features The all-volunteer initiative is documenting exhibits at the more than 20 Smithsonian Institution museums and the National Zoo in response to the Trump administration’s announcement that museums’ contents would be subject…
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Inside the Battle for The Smithsonian – Vanity Fair
CULTURE WAR Inside the Battle for The Smithsonian Donald Trump’s unprecedented measures to take control of The Smithsonian Institution have rattled staffers, enraged artists, and even put the future of its vast collection in doubt. By Manuel Roig-Franzia, September 29, 2025 The look on the curator’s face said it all, and the intensity of the…
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Opinion | Trump’s Attempt to Make Museums Submit Feels Familiar – The New York Times
Opinion, Michelle Goldberg Trump’s Attempt to Make Museums Submit Feels Familiar Aug. 15, 2025 Listen to this article · 5:32 min Learn more By Michelle Goldberg, Opinion Columnist Before Poland’s illiberal Law and Justice party came to power in 2015, the country had been deep in a reckoning over its role in the Holocaust. In…
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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum – The Washington Post
Exclusive WP Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum The Smithsonian said it restored the display to an earlier version, which notes that “only three presidents have seriously faced removal.” July 31, 2025 at 6:24 p.m. EDT28 minutes ago, 6 min By Janay Kingsberry The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in…
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Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with ‘improper ideology’ – Associated Press (AP) – March 27, 2025
Politics Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with ‘improper ideology’By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Updated 6:45 PM PDT, March 27, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targets funding for programs that advance “divisive narratives” and “improper…
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Smithsonian Artifacts That Tell the Story of 9/11 | At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine
From a Pentagon rescuer’s uniform to a Flight 93 crew log, these objects commemorate the 20th anniversary of a national tragedy By Meilan Solly, SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Sept. 8, 2021, 8:43 a.m. Following the tragedies that took place on September 11, 2001, curators at the Smithsonian Institution recognized the urgency of documenting this unprecedented moment in…
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Why Ecologists Are Haunted by the Rapid Growth of Ghost Forests | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
A study in North Carolina of dying trees may represent a foreboding preview of whatmay come to coastal ecosystems worldwide By Jim Morrison, smithsonianmag.com, May 17, 2021 For years, Emily Ury traversed North Carolina’s coastal roads, studying patches of skeletal trees slain by rising seas that scientists call “ghost forests.” Killed by intruding saltwater along…
