{"id":167206,"date":"2025-04-01T22:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/american-history\/would-you-want-your-doctors-not-to-be-revisionists\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T22:49:05","slug":"would-you-want-your-doctors-not-to-be-revisionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=167206","title":{"rendered":"Would you want your doctors not to be revisionists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2016ak11_222-1140x420.jpg\" class=\"singular-image entry-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We covered Trump\u2019s executive order on American history <a href=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/2025\/03\/29\/trumps-executive-order-on-american-history-has-little-to-do-with-history\/\">here<\/a>. Today at <em>The New York Times<\/em>, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/31\/opinion\/trump-war-history.html\">offers his thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A taste:<\/p>\n<p><em>According to the president, \u201cobjective facts\u201d have been replaced with a \u201cdistorted narrative driven by ideology.\u201d And then comes that penetrating epithet, the order\u2019s organizing logic: the desire to end the \u201crevisionist movement\u201d carried out by unnamed historians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I recall that a great historian, Prof.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/perspectives-article\/james-oliver-horton-1943-2017-november-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">James Horton<\/a>, used to have a poignant answer to this label: \u201cWould you want your doctors not to be revisionists?\u201d Any field of study must innovate to maintain relevance. The assumption that there is a standard, agreed-upon truth about the country\u2019s past is a fantasy. But when declared by a sitting American president, it becomes a provocation and an insult.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The order is nothing less than a declaration of political war on the historians\u2019 profession, our training and integrity, as well as on the freedom \u2014 in the form of curious minds \u2014 of anyone who seeks to understand our country by visiting museums or historic sites.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Writing in 1980, in what may have seemed a more placid and hopeful time, the historian John Hope Franklin observed the \u201ctransformation\u201d of scholarship on American history into many new, robust fields, as well as an explosion of popular interest in proliferating historical societies, sites and museums.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire piece <a href=\"https:\/\/currentpub.com\/2025\/03\/29\/trumps-executive-order-on-american-history-has-little-to-do-with-history\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We covered Trump\u2019s executive order on American history here. Today at The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Blight offers his thoughts. A taste: According to the president, \u201cobjective facts\u201d have been replaced with a \u201cdistorted narrative driven by ideology.\u201d And then comes that penetrating epithet, the order\u2019s organizing logic: the desire to end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12032],"tags":[21264,67285,2687,12795,24100,55520,67286,67287],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-167206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-history","tag-american-history","tag-david-blight","tag-doctors","tag-donald-trump","tag-executive-orders","tag-historical-thinking","tag-revisionism","tag-revisionists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Would you want your doctors not to be revisionists? - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=167206\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Would you want your doctors not to be revisionists? - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We covered Trump\u2019s executive order on American history here. 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