That understanding includes an unvarnished view of the purpose of Confederate monuments. “For African Americans these monuments were really created as examples of white supremacy — to remind people of ...

The order is vague but suggests Trump is seeking to purge elements of what conservatives view as a revisionist history of the US that places systemic racism at the heart of its narrative.

Donald Trump is bringing Confederate statues back.

Order singled out the National Museum of African American History and Culture ... Trump has been a strident critic of renaming or removing Confederate statues and monuments. Earlier this year, he ...

The Smithsonian represents a pinnacle of official US efforts to represent pasts that are painful and violent as well as beautiful and accomplished.

Descendants of both the African-American founders and the white plantation ... civil rights activists have pushed to remove Confederate monuments, including the Talbot Boys, from the county ...

In response, Confederate veterans founded the Ku Klux ... leaders of the reconstructed state governments and the African-American citizens they tried to protect. Scholarly attention ...

The order singles out the National Museum of African American History and Culture ... has been a strident critic of renaming or removing Confederate statues and monuments. Earlier this year ...

It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of slavery even existed." ...

Donald Trump is bringing Confederate statues back ... The order goes on to target the African American history museum in particular for allegedly promoting the idea that “American and Western ...