As we approach America’s 250th anniversary, the Trump administration has announced a new “patriotism commission” to shape how that history will be told. But as historian Timothy Snyder warns in his work on memory laws, when governments dictate how we remember the past, it’s not about education, it is about indoctrination and control. We need to ask: whose version of history is being promoted, and whose voices are being silenced…and why?

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