Wiley Hardeman Post first saw an aircraft, a Curtiss-Wright Pusher, in 1913, in Lawton, Oklahoma. Though he was only 15 years old, post enrolled in the Sweeney Automobile and Aviation School in ...

Feb. 16, 2023 Wiley, who is from South Los Angeles, rose to international fame in 2018 with his official portrait of Barack Obama, which is housed in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery ...

Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada), who sits on the Smithsonian board, said in a statement emailed Friday to The Washington Post. “President Trump’s attempts to rewrite history are a weak ...

It was removed in 2020, after Donald Trump Jr. sparked criticism over those words in a social media post. The Smithsonian is governed by a Board of Regents, which is made up of nine citizens ...