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There’s another, lesser-known reason Trump’s attacks on the important institution have ramped up in recent months.
Donald Trump aims to rewrite America’s official history, including at one of the nation’s key sites of public history-making: the Smithsonian. George Orwell would recognize Trump’s impulse.
Zoos aren’t woke, but they aren’t politically neutral, either.
An executive order critiques the idea that race is a human invention. But that’s exactly what modern science supports.
Most recent debates center on how much attention should be given to the history of the nation’s accomplishments over its darker chapters.
Debates are moments in time, but even years later, key items can evoke their history and reinforce their importance in American democracy.
Curators from the Smithsonian will be at the GOP convention collecting items from buttons to banners. Their goal: to add objects to the museum’s collection that will ‘make sense of our moment.’
Artifacts held in the National Museum of American History provide personal details about the Normandy invasion.
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Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
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Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
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Political History Curator, Smithsonian Institution
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Professor of History, Wesleyan University
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Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Michigan State University
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Professor of History and American Studies, Oklahoma State University
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Professor of History, American University
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Professor of Public Humanities and Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
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Paintings Conservator and Program Manager, Smithsonian Institution
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Curator of Military History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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Conservation Scientist, Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian Institution