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A White House domestic policy report is cited as concluding leadership adopted an ideological framework to divide and discourage citizens. The text highlights examples from exhibits that allegedly omit core founding-era figures and reinterpret themes through slavery, exclusion, or cultural erasure, while describing museum leadership’s stated links between research and activism.","July 15, 2026 • $7.99  \nBeers With Vance  \nROB CRILLY—P.38  \nTop Democrats Face Revolt  \nJAY CARUSO—P.17  \nThe World Comes To America  \nDANIEL ROSS GOODMAN—P.20  \nChina’s Warning Shot  \nTOM ROGAN—P.58  \np. 8, 24, & 57  \nSocialists: Never Blue-Collar Heroes  \nThe Democrats’  \nlatest electoral gambit  \nis based on a lie  \nW. JAMES ANTLE III—P.14  \nEditorials  \nThe Smithsonian must be reformed  \nN  \no nation, particularly a democratic republic as large and diverse as ours, can survive without a common understanding of its history and val-  \nues. The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History was explicitly created to help preserve and communicate our shared narrative. Unfortunately, as a new White House report shows, it has failed in this mission. It has, indeed, betrayed it.  \nWhen the Smithsonian’s leaders were lobbying Congress to authorize the American History Museum in 1953, they argued that oneof the “main reasons”the museum was needed was to “place before millions who visit the Nation’s Capital each year a stimulating permanent exposition that commemorates our heritage of freedom and highlights the basic elements of our way of life.” The Smithsonian’s secretary at the time, Leon Carmichael, testified to Congress that, if authorized, the museum“planned to instill in each citizen a deepened faith in our country’s destiny as champion of individual dignity and enterprise.”  \nThe White House’s Domestic Policy Council details in a 162-page report released on the Fourth of July that the history museum has failed to live up to this promise.“Our central finding,” the report concludes,“is that Museum leadership has explicitly adopted an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story asa shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.”  \nThe examples are damning. According to the report, a visitor to the National Museum of American History today will find no major exhibit dedicated to the founding era, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the Continental Congress, the Pilgrims, the Puritans, or Washington crossing the Delaware. The founders who do appear are often presented not as the men who built  \nthe republic, but chiefly through the lens of slavery, exclusion, and oppression. Benjamin Franklin, for example, is reduced in one exhibit to his “ambivalent” view of immigrants, while another exhibit on Franklin’s electrical experiments devotes a major share of its attention to the enslaved people and servants whose labor supposedly enabled his scientific work.  \nThe same pattern appears in the museum’s treatment of the nation’s deeper cultural inheritance. The Pilgrims are framed mainly as “colonizers,” Thanksgiving is portrayed through the lens of a “National Day of Mourning,” and European settlement is described as an “unsettling” of the continent.  \nChristianity, which helped shape the language of natural rights, the abolitionist movement, the Civil Rights movement, and countless schools, hospitals, charities, and voluntary associations, is instead presented chiefly asan instrument of conquest, exclusion, or cultural erasure.  \nSome of this disgraceful and enraging stuff has been written about for decades. It is known, for example, that museum curators got together in the early 1970s to discuss how they could use the museum as a political counterweight to the election of President Richard Nixon. The Smithsonian’stendentious presentation of America and its history has thus been exerting its malignant influence for decades.  \nIts Many Voices, One Nation exhibit is built on the premise that “there is no single American culture, language, or narrative.”Rather than telling the story of how many people became one nation, the exhibit pieces together examples of Americans oppressing immigrants and other groups while reducing E Pluribus Unum from a  \nFOR OUR READERS  \nHave a tip? See anything we’ve missed? 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