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'We stay the course.' Minnesota historians react to the push to patriotize history
Last March, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”
It mandated a shift in how American history is portrayed in federal institutions, with a goal of eliminating “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology.”
Instead, according to the executive order, the focus should be on a more “patriotic” narrative. And to ensure that happens, funding was cut for anything that “degrades shared American values” or “divides Americans by race.”
This order applied largely to federal institutions, like the Smithsonian museums and the National…
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