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Americans ‘want to know history and not a fairy tale’: Historians on Trump rewriting US History
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11:39Now PlayingThis week, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”. It aims at eliminating what the president calls “improper ideology” from the American Historical narrative, including at our museums, national parks, and monuments. The order singles out the Smithsonian, claiming that the museum system’s telling of America’s history is a “distorted narrative”. But, says Johns Hopkins professor of History Martha S. Jones, “Americans are more than capable of confronting hard histories, including in the halls of the Smithsonian, and come out still feeling themselves to be Americans.” Chandra Manning, U.S. History professor at Georgetown University, agrees. “It's not a question of trying to tell a positive or a negative story. It's a question of telling a false story when we leave out the people who make up our past.”
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