Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch sent a letter to the Trump administration responding to a list of demands the White House presented last month as it attempts to assert control over the institution. This comes more than three weeks after the administration attempted to compel the museum and research network to turn over curatorial materials, plans for the United States’s 250th anniversary, visitor experience surveys, and other materials. Bunch met privately with President Trump last week, and his letter was not made public. Bunch, in a description of his letter, said that the institution is already conducting its own review of content to ensure it is “nonpartisan and factual.” The Smithsonian would conduct this review, not the White House, Bunch reportedly said in the letter. It is unclear, though, whether Bunch outright rejected Trump’s authority to issue “content corrections” on the independent institution. To read the full story by isaislearninghowtouseacamera, visit the link i...