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Trump’s White House Ballroom Proposal Faces Preservation Concerns Ahead of Federal Vote

03/06/2026

A federal planning commission is set to vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a massive ballroom at the White House, a plan critics say would dramatically alter the scale and historic layout of the presidential residence. The …

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Arts Panel Approves Trump’s Proposed White House Ballroom

02/22/2026

On Thursday, President Donald Trump came one step closer to building his $400 million White House ballroom, when an arts commission packed with allies approved designs for the project. Instead of holding a preliminary vote, the Commission of Fine Arts …

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Trump May Demolish Buildings With Murals by Philip Guston and Ben Shahn

12/13/2025

Earlier this week, a retired General Services Administration official accused the Trump administration of attempting to demolish four historic federal buildings in Washington, D.C., including the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, Bloomberg Law reported. The former official, Mydelle Wright, made …

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Collector Surrenders ‘Nude Emperor’ Bronze Looted from Roman Shrine

12/10/2025

A California antiquities dealer has surrendered to New York prosecutors a 2,000-year-old bronze statue of a Roman emperor believed to have been looted from an archaeological site in Turkey, as first reported in the New York Times. Aaron Mendelsohn, 74, …

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Historic Preservation Groups Request Pause on Trump's Ballroom

10/24/2025

As demolition began on the East Wing of the historic White House earlier this week to make way for President Donald Trump’s new ballroom, the National Trust for Historic Preservation have asked the Trump administration to pause construction until the …

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Harvard to Relinquish Photos of Enslaved People, Ending Legal Battle

05/30/2025

Harvard to Relinquish Photos of Enslaved People, Ending Legal Battle Harvard University is set to donate fifteen daguerreotypes of enslaved people to the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, settling a lawsuit brought by a descendant of two …

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Harvard Returns Early Images of Enslaved Americans to Descendant after a Years-Long Legal Dispute

05/29/2025

Harvard University has released ownership of what scholars consider the earliest surviving photographs of enslaved African Americans, settling an eight-year dispute with a lone descendant of the subjects captured in the images. Under a confidential settlement announced on Wednesday, the …

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