Historians and activists say its important to protect sites like the Harriet Tubman visitor center, which tell stories of ...

Edda Fields-Black is still processing the fact that she was awarded a 2025 Pulitzer Prize. “It’s just beginning to set in. It ...

The Department of History's Edda Fields-Black has been named a recipient of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for her research on Harriet Tubman.

History teachers are feeling the pinch of politics, and the latest rhetoric from the White House isn’t helping. “We feel so ...

House Democrats are calling on the Smithsonian inspector general to launch an investigation into U.S. President Donald ...

In his second term, Trump revoked a landmark 1965 executive order mandating equal employment opportunities for all, slashed ...

Detractors reduce DEI to racist rhetoric and bureaucratic bloat. The vision they invoke is an unkind caricature. A distortion. A fiction.

Pittsburgh author Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize this week for “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, ...

We're ready to work with Congress to keep this funding going, tackle more repairs and leave a legacy worthy of these ...

As I considered my “Voices” topic for May’s WUN, my thoughts turned immediately to my mother, Bessie L. Walker Roberts. “Miss ...

Our protected wild spaces awakened something profound in the author of "A Wrinkle in Time." They did the same for me.