Yale history professor torches Trump's 'political war' on American history

Yale history professor torches Trump's 'political war' on American history

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, historian, and Yale University professor David Blight who is calling out Donald Trump's attacks on the facts of U.S. history and the flawed scholarship of Kevin Roberts of the conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, who is behind Project 2025 that is seemingly guiding many of the Trump administration's actions.

Historian David Blight On the Threat To History - The Reconstruction Era

David Blight is one of the most respected academic historians in the United States. A professor at Yale, he has written seven books, including the classic  Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. He also wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Frederick Douglas. This week he authored a very depressing look at the attack on history. It is entitled What If History Died By Sanctioned Ignorance? Here are substantial excerpts: The p…