Trump’s ‘Garden of American Heroes’ is a monument to celebrity and achievement – paid for with humanities funding that benefits everyday Americans
By Jennifer Tucker, Professor of History, Wesleyan University
Peter Rutland, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
Trump often casts himself as a man of the people. But his statue garden feeds into a ‘great man’ approach to history at the expense of local and state history.
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