[fieldmarshaldj]

"High school student Will Hubbard of Chicago, Ill., thought the museum did a fine job presenting American history. "It was cool how it was all organized," Hubbard said. Asked if he thought the Smithsonian presented American history fairly, Hubbard responded, "It was pretty accurate. I think from what I learned in school, it seemed pretty real."

You can't blame this boy for being ignorant. My girlfriend survived Chicago public schools and she can testify to the fact they have a VERY rigorous leftist indoctrination process there.

[PoisedWoman]

Within the last few months a wealthy American couple tried to give the Smithsonian perhaps as much as $500,000, anyway, very large amount of money, to install an American Success Story exhibit, featuring stories of those who made it big here. The museum refused to take their money, refused to have American Success part of their exhibits.

Does anyone have a link to that report and/or the names of the wealthy couple?

[rimmont]

All societies have a need for an historical mythology. To undermine a society you take control of that mythology and make it destructive and negative. The left wing PC line is no less mythical than the traditional American story. It is negative myth in place of positive myth but they have convinced many average minded Americans that it is closer to the truth when, in many cases, it is very far from the truth.

[hattend]

They did the same thing at the National Air and Space Museum with the Enola Gay display on the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima/Nagasaki/VJ Day

They finally backed down on how the innocent Japanese were killed by the evil Americans after a national outrage.

Horowitz is right, this revisionist crap has been going on for years...at taxpayer expense.

[narby]

I'll never forget my visit to the National Air & Space Museum about a year after the Clintons came to town.

I had a leather coat on, and tried to check it in the coat room so I wouldn't have to carry it around. But they refused to take it because it was leather.

I was amazed to see they left up the display of the leather bomber jackets.

[narby]

"We want exhibits that really reflect the complexity and richness of American history and that involve people other than Caucasians.

Well, that just about says it. If you're white, you don't belong in American History.

[Rocky]

"There are six million stories in the naked city..."

You can't try to tell everyone's story. There isn't space in the museum. You have to decide what is fundamental about our history and focus on that. The curators have obviously gotten caught up in fringe situations in every stage of the story, and have missed the big story.

Just because something happened, doesn't mean it belongs in a museum. Even if it's really, really important to a small group of people. If the small group of people want their story displayed in a museum, let them start their own museum. Don't make it "America's story" and use our tax dollars to tell it.

There have been a lot of injustices in America. You could probably find quite a few in a given day in any of our big cities. America is a great nation. America is the most powerful nation in the world. Great inventions, great progress, great ideas have come from our nation. How did these things happen? That's the big story.

[LiteKeeper]

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