“Everybody that thought about the 1619 Project … saw that the Smithsonian had fingerprints on it,” Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III once said with pride, a curious boast given the Project’s many ...

Walk in Benjamin Harrison’s Footsteps for Gilded Age Glam Elbridge Gerry’s Complex Legacy Its scholarly claims have faltered, yet its reputation has thrived in the universities because academic elites ...

Armed members of the West Virginia National Guard are positioned across from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025. [AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.] Six years ago this month, on August ...

When The New York Times launched the 1619 Project, it wasn’t trying to rewrite American history. It was trying to complete it. The project marks the year enslaved Africans first arrived in Virginia ...