Brenda M. Hafera is the assistant director and senior policy analyst at the Simon Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation.
Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on Heritage on May 14, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. [E]very political philosopher has always recognized, that there must be some conviction, usually embodied in the form of a story that can be told, comprehended, and taken to […]
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President Trump recently signed an executive order directed at Smithsonian museums and national parks, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, much of the attention since has focused on the Smithsonian piece of the order. The appointment of a National Park Service (NPS) director is often an afterthought; to date, no director has […]
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Virginia is for history lovers. George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and James Madison’s Montpelier – a triad of epicenters of our nation’s past – are all within driving distance. Those who own and operate these historic houses have a significant say over how the American Founding is taught. Unfortunately, as described in a […]
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