Originally published at: How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This article was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive their biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In November 2021, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History opened an exhibit called “The Electric Dr. Franklin,” describing “Benjamin Franklin’s pioneering contributions to electrical science.” The exhibit explained that,…
Don’t bury uncomfortable events, however the museum definitely needs some coherence. My kids compared it to the Field Museum in Chicago - where you can “progress” through history. While there is some technology there, that is over at the Museum of Science and Industry.
It would be an enormous, but very rewarding, undertaking to rearrange things. I recall updating in Chicago - things unavailable as entire eras moved, but great results.
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“Just the facts” history isn’t feasible. Once you start choosing which facts to include, you start excluding a whole lot of other facts.
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