A walk through a Smithsonian museum reveals American genius and cruelty as Trump presses for change
WASHINGTON (AP) – In the afternoon passing through the zero of American – Smithsonian’s American Historical Museum – Objects in every corner invite a question: What could be the American?
What could be the American more than that tremendously Star banner All time -out splendor? Or more American Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers Is it from the “Wizard of Oz”?
And as shown by shackles representing slavery and photographs of Japanese Americans, he can be more American than taking into account the sins of the nation. Limited to detention camps II. In World War II? In authoritarian countries like Russia, where history is cleared.
The museum explores numerously the complexity of our past ”in accordance with the mission expression. President Donald Trump What a simpler fairy tale tells. He wants this and other Smithsonian museums to reflect American pride, power and success without all darkness, and threatens to keep money if they do not receive it with this program.
American genius and ugliness at D Isplay
On social media, Trump complained in the Smithsonian museums, which are free to visit most of his money from the government and to take most of his money, “Everything is terrified, how terrible our country is, how bad the slavery is and how the oppressed is not, nothing about success, nothing about the future.”
In fact, the Museum of History reflects abundant successes in the battlefield, from the kitchens and factories of food pioneers, music scene, films, or other fronts of creativity and diligence. American Business ExhibitionFirst, there is a wall full of stories of successful Americans.
In this mobile tour, you can see the raids of the Blackbeard, the terrible pirate in the early 1700s on the Atlantic coast. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination night, George Washington’s ceremony uniform, Warren Harding’s fine red silk pajamas since the beginning of the 1900s, the first car traveling throughout the country, and the hat wearing a $ 100,000 bill wearing Ford’s theater.
You can see the original bulbs of the American genius Thomas Edison. Benjamin Franklin, his founding father, a much earlier genius, is presented both as a talented inventor and a slave owner who comes to descend slavery but never releases him.
These nuances and uncertainties may not be long for this world. The History Museum still has American creativity, subjugation, generosity, racism, sand, cruelty, verve, volatility, corruption, heroism and cultural allowance documents.
Like most museums, the focus is not in the future.
There are many provocations
Nevertheless, there is a lot to provoke the Republican President.
In the “great debate of an American democracy exhibition, a wall is adorned with big words such as“ privilege ”and“ slavery .. The museum offers Fulsome praise to its contribution to the racist landscape faced by many of the immigrants and narratives.
Exhibitions “Food Justice” is the exploitation of the Philippines after the Network of Pressive Indian boarding schools, where the United States and the territory of the United States and Jim Thorpe became one of the greatest athletes of all time.
The last sovereignty before Hawaii was annexed by U..S. In the 1890s, Queen Lili’uokalani was quoted by asking the following in a poster: “Is the Degeneration of the Republic of American states and the colonialist?”
An exhibited ukulele was carried out by a sugar worker working in the American fields of the kingdom before overturning the US -backed coup monarchy. It is said that the new instrument to the museum visitors is kept by the rulers as a symbol of anti -colonial independence.
“Ukuleles is both a product of US imperialism and a strong symbol of domestic Hawai resistance, or he says.
In his sculpture of George Washington’s Greek-God, text points to complexity and stands under the total respect received by totalitarian leaders.
Stating that “modern scholarship focuses on the misleading man rather than the marble hero, Metin says Washington’s image is still used for inspiration, patriotism and commercial gain” and olmak for many of the country continues to take place as a symbolic ‘father’.
American spirit is also celebrated
During this visit, it is seen that the conservatives behind a large window were attached to small brushes on old wooden pieces. Patriotic work is moving at a snail speed.
Team restoring Gunboat PhiladelphiaA part of a small fleet engaged in the British Navy during the War of Valcour in Lake Champlain in 1776 delayed the effort to buy time to cut the British New England colonies for the decisive victory of the continent’s army in Saratoga.
The commander of the armed boats in the Valcour battle was later in America’s largest Haiimi Benedict Arnold. The British suffered from Philadelphia so badly, sank an hour after the war, then lay in water for 160 years. Next year, the 250th anniversary of America is being restored for celebrations.
“Philadelphia is a symbol of how it came together despite the overwhelming rates against the success of a newly established nation, Jen Philadelphia said, Jennifer Jones, the director of the project. “The fragile state of this boat is the symbol of our democracy, the attention of the country and the protection of the alertness for future generations.”
He doesn’t tell you what to think, but what you think
The fragility of democracy is taken into consideration in a part of the museum about the limits of the presidential power. Trump’s two accusations Removed in July For the update and restored this month.
“On December 18, 2019, the Assembly influenced Donald Trump to abuse power and to prevent the Congress, or he says. “On January 13, 2021, Donald Trump was the first president to influence twice, or another says. “The fee was the incentive of the uprising based on the difficulty of the 2020 election results and his speech on January 6,” he said. The acquittal of the Senate was duly noted.
This deals with a subject that deeply separates the country. The History Museum does not offer answers for this prediction. Instead, he asks questions about the foundations of Americanism in his halls.
“How should the Americans remember the revolution and the organizations of the nation?”
“What does patriotism look like?”
“How diverse should the citizen be?”
“Do we need to share a common national story?”
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Associated Press writer Lynn Berry contributed to this report.
