Trump Makes History Again? Great…

Eugene Debs, for whom July 4, 1776 “ought to be very dear to American workingmen opposed to oppression,” rules in an illustration by W.A. Rogers for the cover of the July 21, 1894 issue of Harper’s Weekly. Public domain.

Donald Trump’s attempts at “fostering unity and a deeper understanding of our shared past” have a chance to succeed — by spurring the very sort of “revisionist movement” he denounces in his March 27 executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”

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