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(AURN News) — The African American Civil War Museum in Washington has reopened after a multiyear renovation, unveiling expanded galleries, improved accessibility…
(AURN News) — On Oct. 2, 1800, Nat Turner was born in Southampton County, Virginia. Enslaved from birth, Turner became a preacher…
(AURN News) — On Sept. 9, 1739, the Stono Rebellion began near the Stono River in South Carolina. Led by an enslaved…
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — The Smithsonian will enter its growing confrontation with the Trump administration under new leadership next year. Smithsonian Secretary…
(AURN News) — Tomorrow, Aug. 1, marks the date the Slavery Abolition Act took effect across most of the British Empire in…
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — President Donald Trump has ordered warning signs installed outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, telling visitors…
“We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.” Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm wrote that in…
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III is pushing back after the White House Domestic Policy Council released a…
WASHINGTON (AURN News) — A new White House Domestic Policy Council report accuses the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History of “extreme…
(AURN News) — Tomorrow marks 250 years since July 4, 1776, when the Declaration of Independence announced the birth of the United…
(AURN News) — On July 2, 1777, Vermont made history by becoming the first U.S. territory to ban slavery. While the American…
(AURN News) — An appeals court ruled that the Trump administration can remove and replace the slavery exhibit at the President’s House…