Lonnie G. Bunch III is a historian who has spent most of his career as a history museum curator and administrator. Currently, he is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.Previously, Bunch was the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. His book about the endeavor, "A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the age of Bush, Obama, and Trump," was published in 2019.