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

The Smithsonian wascreated by Congress in 1846 with funds from James Smithson, a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to establish an institution “for the increase and diff ...

President Donald Trump said a "concerted and widespread" effort over the past decade has sought to rewrite American history.

The institution was established with funds from James Smithson, a British scientist who left his estate to the United States to found “at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order Thursday that targets funding to programs with “divisive narratives ...