Russell Lee, "Son of sharecropper in window of old home, Southeast Missouri Farms" (1938/ 2024) (all photos courtesy Art Bridges) When the United States Department of Agriculture established the Farm ...

A House hearing erupted in anger following a decision by the Trump administration to remove a photo at a Georgia national monument. House Democrats accused the Trump administration of sanitizing ...

Slavery is the latest issue that has drawn President Donald Trump’s ire. “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how ...

Attributed to C.R. Parker, "Portrait of Frederick" (c. 1840) (courtesy the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Mississippi Museum of Art) For decades, the truth about Frederick Baker’s life ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) accused President Donald Trump on Thursday of trying to “whitewash” history after workers removed slavery exhibits near Philadelphia’s Independence Hall. That ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. From George Friday of Concord, in response to “Monticello’s whitewashed history” (Aug.