What’s Behind the Growing Fight Over How America Tells Its History

What’s Behind the Growing Fight Over How America Tells Its History

Each February, Americans mark Black History Month by honoring figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. This year, however, the commemoration arrives amid an intensifying debate over how the nation remembers its past. From Pennsylvania to Montana, the White House’s campaign against what it calls “woke” ideology has extended beyond classrooms to national monuments and historic sites that address slavery, racism, and other difficult chap…