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Two days before Donald Trump’s term expires, his administration released a report on the nation’s history by its 1776 Commission — and it was quickly condemned by historians and others online for attempting to whitewash the country’s history of slavery and institutional racism. The commission was announced by Trump on Constitution Day four months ago, in a highly partisan proclamation that went to great lengths to attack “cancel culture” and “mobs” tearing down statutes, saying “the left has warped, distorted, and defiled the American story with deceptions, falsehoods, a...

by Tracy Neumann Tracy Neumann is an Associate Professor of History at Wayne State University. She specializes in transnational and global approaches to twentieth-century U.S. history, with an emphasis on cities and the built environment. She is the author of Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America  (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) and of essays on urban history and public policy.  Diamond, Andrew J. and Thomas J. Sugrue, eds.  Reviewed by Tracy Neumann Compared to their urbanist counterparts in other disciplines, urban historians—or at le...