The History of Slavery Cannot Be Erased
With Trump raging against the Smithsonian Museum, it's clear that his authoritarian goals are to create a false, perfect past because a functional democracy demands historical honesty.
Henry Snow and Thomas Lecaque
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Henry Snow is an adjunct professor of History at the University of Connecticut. They specialize in the political and economic history of labor, particularly in the maritime 18th century, and write the newsletter Another Way. Their book Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World will be out with Verso in May 2026. Thomas Lecaque is an associate professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. He specializes in the nexus of apocalyptic religion and political violence. He has written for the Washington Post, Religion Dispatches, Foreign Policy and The Bulwark, among others.