Smithsonian Exhibits Need Great Storytelling, Not More Politics

An AASLH Member’s Letter to the Smithsonian

We are presenting this letter as an example to AASLH members and others who are willing to send their own messages to federal and state officials on behalf of history and museums. The Smithsonian Institution, National Endowment for the Humanities, Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Park Service, and other government entities that serve the history community have been the target of recent executive orders from the White House. Wil…

Smithsonian Exhibits Need Great Storytelling, Not More Politics

“Where is Toby? Where is Dolly? What about Johnny Cash? Willie? Merle? Loretta Lynn? Darius Rucker? Geez, I’d even take the Dixie Chicks!” My wife Tanya is a huge country music fan, and those were her questions as we walked through the Smithsonian’s “Entertainment Nation” exhibit at the National Museum of American History on the... The post Smithsonian Exhibits Need Great Storytelling, Not More Politics appeared first on Daily Truth Report • Dai…