Trump Criticizes Smithsonian's Focus on Slavery and History
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President Trump criticized the Smithsonian for focusing too much on slavery, threatening legal action, which scholars argue is an attempt to sanitize history. The institution is already under review by the White House.
- Trump says Smithsonian is too focused on slavery. Scholars see sanitizing. The Washington Post
- Trump vows to expand his review of U.S. museums. Can he do that? NPR
- Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’ The New York Times
- Scholar says Trump’s efforts to reframe U.S. history is ‘reminiscent of McCarthyism’ PBS
- Trump targets the Smithsonian again, says it focuses too much on how bad slavery was Reuters
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