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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Graham Bowley |Robin Pogrebin |Jennifer Schuessler
At a time when it is under scrutiny from the White House, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture is without its director, who stepped down last month. In the eight years since it opened on the National Mall, the National Museum of African American History and Culture has become one of the glittering jewels of the Smithsonian Institution.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Graham Bowley |Robin Pogrebin |Jennifer Schuessler
In a letter to Vice President JD Vance, four U.S. representatives on a committee that oversees the cultural institution urged him to reject President Trump's push to reshape it. In response to President Trump's effort to reshape the Smithsonian Institution, four Democratic members of a House oversight committee urged Vice President JD Vance to reject such an attempt to impose the president's own views of American history.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Robin Pogrebin |Graham Bowley |Jennifer Schuessler
Mr. Trump's order, called "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," cited the graphic and two other examples of what it said were ideological affronts by the Smithsonian.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Zachary Small |Jennifer Schuessler
President Trump intensified his push to impose a more positive view of American history by moving to curb the independence of the Smithsonian Institution, which he wants to make into a “symbol of inspiration and American greatness.” In an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” Trump took aim at what he described as a “revisionist movement” across the country that “seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding...
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Zachary Small |Jennifer Schuessler
Trump Administration live Updates The president complained in an executive order that the Smithsonian had advanced "narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive." President Trump intensified his push to impose a more positive view of American history by moving to curb the independence of the Smithsonian Institution, which he wants to make into a "symbol of inspiration and American greatness." In an executive order titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity...
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1 month ago | 
straitstimes.com | Jennifer Schuessler |Julian Barnes
WASHINGTON - In June 1973, a CIA employee wrote a memo at the request of Mr William E. Colby, the agency’s director, listing various ways the CIA had, to put it delicately, “exceeded” its charter over the years. The seven pages matter-of-factly described break-ins at the French Consulate in Washington, planned paramilitary attacks on Chinese nuclear facilities and injections of a “contaminating agent” in Cuban sugar bound for the Soviet Union. The memo ended with an offhand aside about Mr John A.
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Jennifer Schuessler |Julian Barnes
In June 1973, a CIA employee wrote a memo at the request of William E. Colby, the agency’s director, listing various ways the CIA had, to put it delicately, “exceeded” its charter over the years. The seven pages matter-of-factly described break-ins at the French Consulate in Washington, planned paramilitary attacks on Chinese nuclear facilities and injections of a “contaminating agent” in Cuban sugar bound for the Soviet Union. The memo ended with an offhand aside about John A.
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1 month ago | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Talya Minsberg |Adam Nagourney |Jennifer Schuessler |Sarah Maslin Nir
By Talya Minsberg, Adam Nagourney, Jennifer Schuessler and Sarah Maslin NirThe release of about 64,000 documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Tuesday started a race to find a revelation, as journalists, historians and amateur sleuths scoured the pages in hopes of finding something, anything, that could be considered consequential. Instead, the big reveal was that there wasn’t much of a reveal at all. Here are the biggest takeaways of the blockbuster that wasn’t.
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1 month ago | 
ekathimerini.com | Talya Minsberg |Adam Nagourney |Jennifer Schuessler |Sarah Maslin Nir
THE NEW YORK TIMES Takeaways from the Kennedy Files: Spycraft, collateral damage and granular detail The National Archives in Washington, on Jan. 24, 2025. The promise of a “final” release of all government secrets relating to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy has whetted the appetite of many Americans, including the current occupant of the Oval Office.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Jennifer Schuessler |Julian Barnes
In June 1973, a C.I.A. employee wrote a memo at the request of William E. Colby, the agency's director, listing various ways the C.I.A. had, to put it delicately, "exceeded" its charter over the years. The seven pages matter-of-factly described break-ins at the French Consulate in Washington, planned paramilitary attacks on Chinese nuclear facilities and injections of a "contaminating agent" in Cuban sugar bound for the Soviet Union. The memo ended with an offhand aside about John A.
