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The president’s recent executive order directed at the institution will face a lot of procedural headwinds before he can MAGA ...
spend most of their time poring over books and papers. But sometimes they venture into "the field," and sometimes the field is literally that. Lonnie Bunch, the engaging associate director for ...
Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and founding director of the National Museum of African ...
The president’s executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its ...
Aidan Bean installs Suchi Reddy’s AI-based artwork, “me + you,” in the central rotunda of the Arts and Industries Building. Alyssa Schukar "The museum of the past must be set aside ...
In Myanmar, a scientist with Smithsonian’s Global Health Program examines the world’s smallest mammal, a bumblebee bat. Roshan Patel / National Zoo Earlier this year, when leading infectious ...
book closes ... GATES: My second guest is historian Lonnie Bunch, the creative genius behind the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Just like ...
The GOOD News is Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III is an American scholar, historian and the fourteenth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. April 4, 2025 • Buying and reading books in America ...