“[Authoritarian governments target museums] because they believe that’s where you can control people’s minds. You can sustain a social order. You can control education. You can control the arts. You can control writing and creativity itself.”
- David Blight
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Republicans press Smithsonian museum leader in contentious Hill hearing
The lawmakers called attacks on the museum “revisionist history” after a White House report accused it of “ideological capture.”