#foundationalnarratives — Public Fediverse posts

Have you at any time... rewritten the settler narrative?
Foundational narratives facing the murder board

“When historians talk about reframing a traditional narrative, we don’t mean erasing it...We mean adding the evidence, the voices, the objects, that earlier tellings left out, so that more Americans can see themselves reflected in the national story.” >>
https://apnews.com/article/smithsonian-history-museum-trump-white-house-criticism-99fff0e5911b4dc01905713d19a73e32

Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=961Mclohmi8&t=2099s

#SettlerSociety #ethnonationalism #AmericanDream #FoundationalNarratives #ReshapeThePast #history #museum #culture #diversity #examination #MurderBoard #zeitgeist

"The town capitalists and plantation patriarchs are in the saddle – while our revolutionary inheritance, Paine’s “universal struggle for liberty”, awaits its next reinvention."

""Emancipation and expansion are twin pillars of the American revolutionary narrative."

"Rather than finding new sources for expansion – moral or material – our American age is one of attrition and low expectations, small yards, high fences, new trade barriers, rising mid-life mortality, border walls and prison bars."

The American myth always came at someone’s expense. Now, it’s all but collapsed >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/28/america-250-origin-myth-narrative-power
#expansion #empire #EuropeanColonisation #FoundationalNarratives #IndigenousPeoples #dispossession #SettlerSociety #AmericanDream #systemic #inequality #EthicalInfrastructure #emancipation