The US institution is under pressure from the Trump administration to change how it portrays the country's history.

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the first Black secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and one of the most influential museum leaders ...

Historian Lonnie Bunch will leave his position as secretary of the Smithsonian at the end of the year, he announced Tuesday.

Lonnie Bunch III said Tuesday that he will retire as the head of the Smithsonian Institution, a role that placed him at the center of President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape the world’s largest ...

Lonnie Bunch is stepping down from the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution following a tumultuous year in which President Donald Trump tried to remake the portrayal of U.S.

Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie Bunch speaks during an event at the Smithsonian National Museum of American ...

Restoring the Castle's red sandstone exterior has posed its own puzzle. The original quarry in Montgomery County, Maryland, ...

"Lonnie G. Bunch III, the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Credit: Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian ...

The Trump administration’s latest strategy to control the Smithsonian has the logic of lunchroom bullying; the Department of ...

With a storied career dating back to the 1970s, Bunch leaves a remarkable legacy, most notably the founding of the National Museum of African American History and Culture ...

The Trump administration has suggested federal agencies may stop working with the Smithsonian Institution if its leadership does not change, ramping up a monthslong pressure campaign to align the ...

The Smithsonian Institution Building, also known as the Castle, will resume renovations.