The History at the Smithsonian That the White House Finds Unpatriotic
The administration’s report criticizing the National Museum of American History echoes themes of President Trump’s push to reshape the American story.
SUNDAY, 12 JULY 2026, 14:08
The administration’s report criticizing the National Museum of American History echoes themes of President Trump’s push to reshape the American story.
A man wrote an angry email to a government official, and federal agents came to his home. A reporter was barred from covering a lockdown at a New Jersey school.
Historians defended Anthea Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, after the Trump administration accused her of spreading “radical activist ideology.”
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The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, caused a furore last...

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The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
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