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Free the Smithsonian — and our history — from America-hating elites

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“Warning: The exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don’t want you to love your country.”

That’s a disclaimer every entrance to the National Museum of American History ought to display, according to a new White House report excoriating the Smithsonian Institution and its flagship museum.

But it doesn’t take a 160-page report to show what’s wrong with the Smithsonian — just walk into any of its museums.

With a bit of time on my hands in the Chinatown area of Washington, DC, last year, I decided to take a stroll through the National Portrait Gallery.

The art is as magnificent as ever, but it seemed every historical portrait had to be accompanied by two sets of explanatory text: one talking about the portrait itself, the other describing its subject’s connection to slavery, however distant.

For the Smithsonian’s leadership, it often seems less like slavery is a part of American history — an important and awful part, to be sure — than that American history is part of the story of slavery.

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That casual impression from the National Portrait Gallery is confirmed by the White House Domestic Policy Council’s Report, “Saving America’s Story: How Ideological........

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