Smithsonian’s Museum of American History Erases American Greatness, New Report Finds

Smithsonian’s Museum of American History Erases American Greatness, New Report Finds



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As a result, the report claims, the museum now “purposely presents America as a problematic country irredeemably conceived, founded by deeply flawed men, and still operating today as an instrument of systemic racism and oppression. In the Museum’s current telling, the country is, above all, defined by white supremacy, slavery, conquest, exclusion, hierarchy, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and systemic injustice.”

Five Key Findings
The report made five key findings.



1. NMAH Fails to Substantively Present America’s Founders and Founding

For example, a “visitor to the Museum today will find no major exhibit dedicated to America’s Founding era, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, other Founding Fathers, the Continental Congress, the Pilgrims, the Puritans, or major moments of the American Revolution, such as Washington’s crossing of the Delaware.

However, you will find Benjamin Franklin, chiefly because of his anti-slavery efforts.

2. NMAH Has ‘Problematized’ the 250th Anniversary of America’s Founding

The report documents how museum leadership stated that the 250th anniversary should be “problematized.” For “Critical Social Justice” theorists, this refers to the process of highlighting alleged “oppressions” within a given subject to “deconstruct, disqualify, and discredit the prevailing narrative on that subject.”


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For NMAH, this means American history should be reframed away from an “America First mentality” and an “Anglo-centric” focus on its founding, including highlighting the “gaps” in the Declaration of Independence rather than its unprecedented affirmation of mankind’s unalienable rights.

3. NMAH Removed ‘American History’ From Its Mission Statement to ‘Get Out of the ‘America First’ Mentality‘

Removing the “America First mentality” included replacing “American history” and “infinite richness” in the museum’s mission statement with language about empowering people to create “a more just and compassionate future” by exploring “the complexity of our past.”

4. NMAH Has Abandoned Historical Scholarship for Political Activism



The report notes that the museum’s interpretive plan directs staff to, “whatever the topic,” tie exhibits back to a set of seven “core issues of our time”—specifically, race/identity, gender/sexuality, climate change, immigration/migrations, economic inequality, technological change, and nationalism/globalism—as part of its “commitment to relevance.”

This means reshaping, in a woke manner, any subject, be it democracy, entertainment, immigration, childhood, women’s labor, sports, or early American settlement. This is why visitors would see LGBTQ-centric displays alongside R2-D2 and Dorothy’s ruby slippers.

5. The Smithsonian Has Not Met Its Obligations to the American People

The report concludes that “the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of American History in particular, under its current leadership and current interpretive ideology, cannot be trusted to tell America’s story honestly and in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic.”

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