Many Americans are rightly upset that the National Park Service, as directed by the Trump administration, is removing materials related to slavery and Native Americans.
They’re removing history, some have said.
Now where have we heard that before?
In fact, it was less than 10 years ago when people — often supported by local or state governments — were destroying statues and monuments first of Confederate officers and then of slave-holding Founding Fathers and then of anyone who at the moment was the subject of someone’s pique.
They’re removing history, many of us said.