Lonnie G. Bunch III
The 14th secretary of the Smithsonian on his new job, the value of pandas and how to make the past personal
by LILY ROTHMAN
Jul 01, 2019
2 minutes
You’ve said you can tell a lot about a place by what it deems worth preserving. What does the Smithsonian say about America? When I started in ’89 at [the National Museum of] American History, the collections reflected a 1950s interpretation of America—great men or women. Over the past 30 years, the Smithsonian has made strides to making sure the
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