Will the United States Have an Unpredictable Past?

Washington crossing the Delaware on December 25–26, 1776, depicted in Emanuel Leutze’s 1851 painting.

The belief that Russia is a country with an unpredictable past is a common one, frequently cited in academic and cultural studies.  Now the Trump administration has taken a step largely ignored by the mainstream media that will pave the way to an unpredictable past for the United States.  Russia has a complicated and tumultuous history that found czars and commissars rewriting the past for their own benefit.