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Douglas E. Welch

William Bache's Silhouettes Album via The National Portrait Gallery [Shared]

William Bache (1771–1845) emigrated from England to Philadelphia in May 1793 with no apparent training as an artist. Yet from 1803 to 1812, he pursued a prolific and successful career as an itinerant maker of silhouette portraits, traveling up and down the eastern seaboard, from Maine to Virginia, and further south to Louisiana and Cuba. Working sporadically over that nine-year period, he produced thousands of shaded profiles with the aid of a patented physiognotrace, a mechanical device used to trace the outline of a person’s face. Cheap and quick to make, silhouettes captured the likenesses of a broad cross-section of society, including those who could afford no other form of portrait.

welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/01

#art#artwork#portrait
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Transgender World

The US government is to withhold funding for #Smithsonian exhibits that “degrade shared American values” or “divide Americans based on race.»

Let us spell this out for you: Trump aims at stopping publicly funded art, research and education from presenting the role of #racism in American history
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Nonilex

It empowers #JDVance to review all properties, programs & presentations to prohibit programs that “degrade shared American values” or “divide Americans based on race.”

#Trump also ordered Interior Secy #DougBurgum to determine if any monuments since Jan 2020 “have been removed or changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history” or “inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures.”

#Smithsonian#AmericanHistory#BlackAmerican
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Nonilex

#Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder cites the Natl Museum of #AfricanAmericanHistory & #Culture by name & argues that the #Smithsonian as a whole is engaging in a “concerted & widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history.”

Instead of celebrating an “unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, & human happiness,”the order states that a “corrosive…divisive, race-centered ideology”has “reconstructed”the nation “as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.”

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Nonilex

#Trump’s order accusing the #Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting #AmericanHistory notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men are created equal.”

But it doesn’t mention that the founders enshrined #slavery into the #US #Constitution & declared enslaved persons as ⅗ of a person for the purpose of the Census.

#whitewashing #censorship #BlackAmerican #WhiteSupremacy #racism #USpol
apnews.com/article/trump-black

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Wen

Someone has been coaching Trump

'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.' (Orwell)

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

Orwell was a shrewd observer (not that the comment in expansion is unique, but his encapsulation is pithy).

On another front, 'If you are a not white, are not right wing, question things or demand evidence then the best chances for you and your family are to flee the US;

The Guardian · Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for ‘improper ideology’By Adam Gabbatt
#Trump#RewritingHistory#Smithsonian
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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk

The latest target for Trump's crackdowns is the Smithsonian Institution and its museums and education and research centers. A new executive order directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate "improper, divisive or anti-American" ideology from programs at the Institution, which receives federal funding. Here's more from MSNBC's MaddowBlog.

flip.it/iw2S6c

MSNBC · Trump order targets ‘improper’ ideology at the Smithsonian InstitutionBy Steve Benen
#Smithsonian#Museums#TrumpAdministration
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Nonilex

#Trump’s order calls the #Smithsonian’s evolving approach a “revisionist” history “with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth” that is “inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.”

Does he just describe himself but sub the names of the institutions he attacks wherever his name was?

#law #AmericanHistory #censorship #WhiteWashing #CultureWars #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism

npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-53429

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