“Any discussion of American exceptionalism must include how bad slavery was. Six hundred thousand people died fighting over it… You could water it down; but then, you would be diminishing the sweeping exceptionalism of Americans who sacrificed so much to end something so at odds with America’s ideals.” – Reporter’s Notebook: American exceptionalism and confronting slaveries’ horrors (CBS)

“American exceptionalism mean[s] courage to face uncomfortable truths. Confronting evil directly in the past and present, not minimizing it, demonstrates American greatness—in the past, now, and for the future.” – ibid.

“This [Trump’s DEFORMATIONAL push on the Smithsonian Museum] is a whitewashing of history under the guise of making white children feel better about themselves.” – Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of history at Harvard University, president of the Organization of American Historians, and award-winning author

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