'Half-baked': Historian takes us inside Trump’s push to whitewash the 'ugliness of the past'

'Half-baked': Historian takes us inside Trump’s push to whitewash the 'ugliness of the past'

President Donald Trump continues to declare war on college and universities, arguing that many of them are promoting anti-Americanism. College professors, Trump says, need to be celebrating the United States instead of painting it in a negative light.But historian, scholar and author William Sturkey, in an article published by The New Republic on August 11, argues that Trump's campaign to whitewash the darker parts of U.S. history is destructive…