Who runs and funds the Smithsonian and can Trump overhaul it like he is the federal government? Here’s what to know.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" targets the ...

An executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution is prompting questions over the organization’s past and who runs and funds it.

Trump to overhaul the world’s largest museum, education and research complex to ‘restore truth and sanity to American history ...

Pictured above is smithsonite, a zinc carbonate mineral that was named after James Smithson (c. 1765–1829), a British chemist, mineralogist, and the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution.

WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday (Mar 27) to remove "improper ideology" ...

Small was the eleventh secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, serving from 2000 ... iceberg A new biography depicts benefactor James Smithson as an exuberant, progressive man enamored of ...

In 1835, Englishman James Smithson bequeathed capital (worth $ ... that were beginning to develop in America.” Beyond the Smithsonian deliberations, Adams’ determined public effort to make ...

Ms. Burleigh is the author of The Stranger and the Statesman : James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America's Greatest Museum: The Smithsonian (William Morrow, 2003). A few weeks ...