We’ve Reached the Era of American Unhistory

It's clear now that we are going to adapt a trope from George Orwell, who wrote in 1984 of “unpersons:” people whose existence has been disappeared because of an offense against The Party.

We have passed into the era of “unhistory.” The other day, it was announced that a famous 1863 picture of an ex-slave showing the crisscrossed scar tissue from dozens of whippings would be removed from a national park. And, as The Washington Post says , this was part of a general campaign on the part of the administration to quite literally whitewash American history as presented on our public lands.

Following Trump’s order, Interior Department officials issued policies ordering agency employees to report any information, including signage and gift shop items, that might be out of compliance.