#historical-narrative

#historical-narrative

Two federal lawsuits filed this week have turned a single flagpole in New York City's Greenwich Village into a referendum on how the United States tells its own story. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+ news and politics. Sign up for The Advocate's email newsletter. At issue is the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument, the first national monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

All history is to some extent narrative. You cannot tell a story without in some way editing it, reducing it, compressing it. Which means that anybody telling a story about a historical event, particularly one from the relatively recent past, risks outraging those who have studied it or who remember it. Often those complaints are pedantic, trivial, but sometimes they are not. It's one thing to elide two minor characters or to tweak the timeline to simplify a story, quite another to imply misleading motivations.

President Donald Trump has affixed partisan plaques to the portraits of all U.S. commanders in chief, himself included, on his Presidential Walk of Fame at the White House, describing Joe Biden as sleepy, Barack Obama as divisive and Ronald Reagan as a fan of a young Trump. The additions, first seen publicly Wednesday, mark Trump's latest effort to remake the White House in his own image,

The 1873 painting by John Gast shows a group of white pioneers traveling west, forcing a group of Indigenous people out of frame.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the restoration of a Confederate statue, referred to as 'The Reconciliation Monument,' to Arlington National Cemetery after its removal in 2023.

"Alert: History Under Construction. Everything on this sign is true but incomplete." This message was part of the exhibit aimed at enhancing historical narratives at Muir Woods National Monument, showcasing untold stories of indigenous peoples and colonial impacts.

Did Sammie sell his soul? I've written about how I think Sammie might have sold his soul. The end-credits scene shows him with no scars. That means that it takes place before the events depicted in the movie. Does he attract Remmick because he has access to another dimension? Is the scene showcasing Black music in the middle of the film a sign that he can tap into the divine because of an encounter with an otherworldly being? The next film could show us the answer.

Robert Einstein was cousin to the famous physicist Albert Einstein, both having a deep familial bond formed during their childhood in 19th-century Munich.