America at 250 Podcast
Episode 1
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Yale University 2025 Devane Lectures:
"America at 250: A History"
Class 1
The Road to 250
August 28, 2025
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LIVE IN 10 MINUTES 📢 Trump vs. History: How Trump is trying to change our sense of who we are.

David Blight, Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University, talks with fellow academics on how we fight to preserve our history AND democracy. trib.al/6g46FnL trib.al/OHZhG3Y #DavidBlight

👇🏻👇🏽👇🏾👇The article discussed by #LawrenceODonnell and author/historian #DavidBlight on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on Thursday on MSNBC TV 📺👇🏿👇🏾👇🏻👇🏿👇👇🏽👇🏻👇🏾

Opinion | Trump’s Order to the Smithsonian Distorts Teaching of American History The assumption that there is a standard, agreed-upon truth about the country’s past is a fantasy; but when declared by a sitting president, it becomes a provocation.

“The assumption that there is a standard, agreed-upon truth about the country’s past is a fantasy. But when declared by a sitting American president, it becomes a provocation and an insult.”

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[via @nytimes.com]