Four are Indian peace medals presented to tribal members during treaty negotiations and other interactions with U.S. representatives.

The bipartisan effort to ban the demolition of presidential memorials was thwarted in the Senate by an objection from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).

American students continue to turn away from the humanities, with bachelor’s degrees in the field falling to their lowest level in more than three decades.

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian’s first Black secretary, said President Donald Trump’s pressure played no role in his decision and vowed to defend the institution’s independence until he leaves.

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will close its museum in Philadelphia on Sept. 30, 2026, NBC10 confirmed.

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Tarnished Promises

Tarnished Promises

Tarnished Promises

Baseball became a powerful form of collective resistance for Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.

The push to downplay slavery today echoes the 1932 Washington Bicentennial, writes John Garrison Marks.

The founders of an Underground Railroad history site in Albany, New York, claim the Trump administration’s funding cuts were aimed at marginalizing Black history.

The proposal has already been rejected by members of a separate federal coin committee — and panned by former member Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

As Trump seeks to reshape its museums and other cultural institutions, wall text has become a battleground and documentation a form of resistance.

The rapid collapse in available research funding is one crisis in the humanities we aren’t talking enough about, Asheesh Kapur Siddique writes.

“Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild],” the thoughtful and quietly radical new documentary from Ojibwe filmmakers Adam and Zack Khalil, which recently won the NEXT Audience Award at Sundance, is about a great many things.  It’s about life just as it is death, theft as much as it is restoration, and history just as much as it is our current moment. It’s about the ways the past, present, and future are interconnected, challenging us to look more deeply at their relationship, serving as an act of often revolutionary reframing of how we think about time and knowledge. Continue reading ‘Aanikoobijigan’ Review: Adam & Zack Khalil Craft A Quietly Radical Documentary About Life, Death, Time, & Knowledge [Sundance] at The Playlist.

Repatriation theme permeates new Indigenous stories at festival, which bids farewell to ‘Sundance Kid’