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Posted on 07/05/2026 1:15:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A scathing report released on the Fourth of July says the National Museum of American History downplays the role of the founders while emphasizing social justice.
In a broadside posted to its website just as Fourth of July fireworks were lighting up skies around the country on Saturday, the White House faulted the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for what it said was a failure to properly celebrate the nation’s heritage, arguing that it had become a tool of political activism intent on denigrating the American story.
The 162-page report, by the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, represents a sweeping attack on the museum’s presentation of American history. It is the latest step in the Trump administration’s campaign to pressure the Smithsonian into conforming to what President Trump has described as “patriotic” history.
While the report concludes that the Smithsonian Institution — which oversees 21 museums and the National Zoo — “has not met its obligations to the American people,” it places particular blame on the National Museum of American History.
That museum has been the subject of “ideological capture,” the report says, accusing it of an anti-white bias and, in particular, of minimizing and distorting the nation’s founding. Those actions, the report asserts, have “moved the museum’s mission away from straightforward historical education and scholarship toward an extreme political activism that seeks to transform our country.”
The report, titled “Saving America’s Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage,” says the museum does not recount U.S. history “clearly and fairly.”
“Our central finding is not that the museum has simply added overlooked stories, corrected perceived errors or broadened its historical scope,” it says. “Rather, it is that museum leadership has explicitly adopted an ideological framework that...
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The indians fought and lost. We took what they had previously, just like every nation in world history has done before.
Isn’t it run by the federal government? Use Obama’s pen and phone to fix it. Or aren’t Republicans allowed to use them?
I visited the Museum of the American Indian a few years ago. It’s in the DC Mall with the Smithsonians.
They have copies of many peace treaties they made with the USA that were virtually all violated.
They should get reparations before the blacks get $1.
countries throughout history have fought, signed treaties and then fought again.
That is just normal.
I was there a year ago last May. This is spot on. It probably irks them to have displays like the big one devoted to the original Star Spangled Banner. But there were exhibit after exhibit about “our stories.”
The usual DEI crap. It was a huge turn off and we didn’t spend much time there
"Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Kinda cool!" --Paul "The Forehead" Begala
The Natural History Museum has been reduced to promoting “man made global warming.” They ruined it.
Like so many of our institutions the Smithsonian Institute was targeted by America hating leftists. It got the full Howard Zinn Treatment.
Smithsonian Magazine. One of the many publications we canceled decades ago.
The Globull Hoax is strong with the libtards at the Smithsonian.
Simple solution: Have a 50% reduction in force at the Smithsonian...
“National Museum of American History downplays the role of the founders while emphasizing social justice.”
Sounds like the National Museum of American History needs to be doged and let most of its employees find real jobs.
(Happened at a museum at which I was a volunteer.)
Now they own casinos and hotels. So much for the open plains and all that.
Same here. Leftist drivel. Same with National Geographic.
We took our son there years ago. It was bad then. I was very disappointed.
Years ago, author Louis L’Amour, on a National TV morning show said the tribes violated as many treaties as the Whites did.
I found the Washita battle in 1868 was one in which the tribe would go to their reservation in Oklahoma, NOT THE WASHITA at that time, went instead to the Washita, sent a war party to attack their traditional enemies in Kansas, the Kaw and Pawnee, started killing settlers and fled back to the Washita. Gen Sheridan ordered Custer to find and punish those raiders. He did. It was his OSAGE SCOUTS who killed the women and children.
https://www.nps.gov/waba/learn/historyculture/osage-scouts.htm
The tribe got the Washita as a reservation in the 1870s but not the 1860s. Their ORIGINAL reservation was South of the Kansas Line, West of the Arkansas River and East-north east o f the Cimarron river, in the former Cherokee lands lost in the Civil War.
The Washita was in former Choctaw-Chickasaw lands lost for the same reason.
Here is a map I heard about in 1970 but only found in 2005. See the clearly marked Cheyenne Reservation? Now find the Washita far to the South west.
https://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a49/DougLoudenback/maps/1872colton_oklaonly.jpg
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The fact that Indian (the termite mound) and the black museum (hideous tall pick-up stix mess) exist at all, is activism.
news flash. the population that was here when columbus landed in 1492 was decimated by diseases he and his men brought over as carriers, wiping out ~95% of the population by the time the pilgrims landed in 1620.
this was an act of God as no one at the time understood germs, viruses, or germ warfare.
as such, the europeans found a land which was almost entirely unpopulated and then proceeded to settle the continent.
i realize this flies in the face of the lies spewed by many public school and college teachers. this is due to their interest in painting the european settlers as blood thirsty murder bots.
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