What It Means to Tell the Truth About America And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”

In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.”

So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.

Truth. #honesty

You have my gratitude!

Thank you! I can try to make it work live if you don’t post to a YouTube channel or something comparable. I’m looking forward to the discussion. Thank you for hosting.

I’ll be taking a group of AP Euro students to Dachau this March. I’d love to show this in our class. Will this be recorded?

The New Authoritarianism This isn’t single-party rule, but it’s not democracy either.

“Rather than fascism or single-party dictatorship, the United States is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism,” Steven Levitsky writes:

True. The first of the three is my favorite.

Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Morris

Solid night.

Please and thank you!

Full text of Paine’s “American Crisis” here: www.ushistory.org/paine/crisis...