The fight to take back Americas museums starts now

Excellent: House Republicans have called National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig to testify Tuesday about the NMAH’s “political tendentious” exhibits — in what should be the next step in breaking our cultural institutions out of their painfully woke fever.Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) Chairman Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) summoned Hartig in the wake of the damning July 4 report laying out how far left her institution has swung.A small sample:Yes: The National Museum of American History took “American history” out of its mission statement.Central facts of US history and anything that might bring pride in our country, out; lefty obsessions and America-is-monstrous nonsense, in: It couldn’t be more black and white.This, in a branch of the Smithsonian that gets 62% of its funding from tax dollars.Worse, museums across America have gone down this demented path.In 2020, during the heights of Floyd-a-mania, the National Museum of African American History and Culture produced an online exhibit about “whiteness” insisting that individualism, hard work, respect for authority, and delayed gratification are all somehow “aspects of whiteness.”In 2024, the National Park Service moved to take down a statue of William Penn from a key historical site in Philadelphia in favor of an exhibit on Native Americans — William Penn, Pennsylvania’s namesake and the guy who fathered the modern idea of pluralism.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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Here in New York City, the Natural History Museum famously took down a statue of Theodore Roosevelt as a sop to BLM activists; in 2023 it started warning pregnant and menstruating women to stay away from certain indigenous “objects of power” entirely so as not to offend Native Americans. Other visitors got told ...