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

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 ...

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

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 ...

open image in gallery President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian ... The institution was established with funds from James Smithson, a British scientist who left ...

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 ...

The Smithsonian Institution, a vast complex of research centers, museums and galleries, is the latest culture target of President Trump's executive orders.

US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order aimed at reshaping the Smithsonian Institution, arguing that it has embraced a "divisive, race-centred ideology." The order directs Vice President JD Vance to oversee changes,