The Importance of Revisionist History in the US

The national park system is one part of the US that works despite a lack of money. I'm really interested in learning more about how the author grapples with that what that history looks like and sort of thinking about what lessons it holds for us today. Do you need to grapple with the past in order to have a good future or do you need to forget the past sometime if you do? What are the costs of pretending to forgetting the past?" I don't know that the park service wants to be the ones to take the lead in struggling with them," says John Avlon.

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