The White House plans to conduct a wide-ranging review of the Smithsonian Institution's museum exhibitions, materials and ...

Opened in January 1964 as the National Museum of History and Technology, the museum was renamed the National Museum of American History in October 1980 to more accurately reflect its scope of ...

The History of the American West Gets a Much-Needed Rewrite Artists, historians and filmmakers alike have been guilty of creating a mythologized version of the U.S. expansion to the west ...

Special Report Untold Stories of American History Explore the lives of little-known changemakers who left their mark on the country ...

TIME asked 25 historians to each pick one moment that changed the course of American history. The results may surprise you.

During his private tour of the NMAAHC during his first term, President Donald Trump said it served as “a meaningful ...

Rosina Lozano, associate professor of history, researches Latino history with a focus on Mexican American history, the American West, migration and immigration, and comparative studies in race and ...

Michelle McDonald, library and museum director at the American Philosophical Society, provided an introduction to her lecture about the role and growing importance of coffee in colonial America ...