Smithsonian Institution
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The Smithsonian Institution is a group of museums, education and research centers, created by the United States federal government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded on August 10,
The Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C., also known as "the Castle"
"The Castle" (built 1847) in April 1865.
"The Castle" on the National Mall: the institution's earliest building remains its headquarters.
The Smithsonian Institution area around the National Mall.
Lonnie Bunch
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Lonnie Griffith Bunch III is an American educator and historian. Bunch is the fourteenth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the first African American and first historian to serve as head of th
Smithsonian Institution
…of that body. The secretary of the Smithsonian has the privilege of the floor at the United States Senate. The fourteenth and current secretary is Lonnie Bunch, who was appointed in 2019 after serving as the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The…
Bunch in 2021
Bunch moderating a civil rights panel at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in 2014
Bunch and Kinshasha Holman Conwill at the future location of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2006