Mahnaz, Firouz, and their then-small children had escaped the fanatic violence and persecution of Iran in the middle of the night.

Dr. Blight is the president of the Organization of American Historians. On Thursday President Trump issued an executive order, Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History. In Mr. Trump’s ...

Neither the Atlanta History Center, nor the Atlanta-based National Center for Civil and Human Rights, will be directly affected by the executive order, as they do not receive federal funding.

According to the executive order, Trump believes the Smithsonian's telling of America's history is "racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed." Over the past decade, Americans ...

The executive order, entitled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” targets efforts to protect and interpret American history at institutions like the Department of the Interior, the ...

Titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," the order states, "Once widely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural achievement, the Smithsonian ...

Trump’s “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” order characterizes this period of cognizance as “a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history” that ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at restoring what he calls "truth and sanity" in American history by reforming the Smithsonian Institution, protecting national ...

Though he has not commented publicly on the executive order, Mr. Bunch sent an email on Friday to Smithsonian employees that said he would work “as we have done throughout our history” with ...