Lonnie Bunch

Dec 6, 2024 | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Ron Collins |Lonnie Bunch |Dan Rather

Editor’s Note: Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch, III is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The following essay was adapted from his introduction to the recent book Tragedy on Trial: The Story of the Infamous Emmett Murder Trial by Ron Collins.

Nov 14, 2024 | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Ronald Collins |Dan Rather |Lonnie Bunch

The boy's vicious killing in Mississippi in 1955 helped to transform America's racial consciousness. Editor’s Note: Ronald K.L. Collins is a retired law professor, noted legal scholar, and the author or co-author of 13 books. He recently published Tragedy on Trial: The Story of the Infamous Emmett Till Murder Trial based on the discovery of long-lost transcripts of the trial proceedings.

Oct 8, 2024 | americanheritage.com | Edwin Grosvenor |Dan Rather |Ronald Collins |Lonnie Bunch

Editor’s Note: After a distinguished career in journalism spanning six decades, Dan Rather reflected on patriotism and what it means to be an American in his recent bestselling book, What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism, coauthored with Elliot Kirschner. This essay was adapted from portions of the book.

Jul 2, 2024 | americanheritage.com | Joshua Zeitz |Lonnie Bunch |Carolyn Eisenberg |Eugene Meyer

Viewing a transformation that still affects all of us—through the prism of a single year It has been called the “burned-over decade,” a “dream and a nightmare,” the “definitive end of the Dark Ages, and the beginning of a more hopeful and democratic period” in American history.

Aug 31, 2023 | progressivepolicy.org | Curtis Valentine |Tommy Kaelin |Lonnie Bunch

“We have a Belief Gap in education.” I uttered those exact words from the main stage of the Smithsonian’s Institute’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden for the 2023 Smithsonian National Education Summit. The summit came at a time when the country was becoming more and more divided along political lines on the topic of education and the teaching of American history.