The Steady Drip

Rep. Gill to Newsmax: Smithsonian Has Gone Too Far Left (Connecting the Dots: The Smithsonian Institution, The National Museum of American History, Anthea M. Hartig & The Carnegie/Soros Network)

Newsmax.com

By Theodore Bunker | Tuesday, 21 July 2026 03:33 PM EDT

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/brandon-gill-newsmax-smithsonian/2026/07/21/id/1263589/

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, told Newsmax on Tuesday that the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History has embraced an ideology that treats objectivity and politeness as characteristics of "white supremacy culture."

Gill spoke to "Bianca Across the Nation" after questioning museum director Anthea Hartig at a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing titled "Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian's Efforts to Reshape the Past."

"You know, it's crazy. They had been promoting an anti-racist toolkit that was used to determine whether somebody is promoting white supremacist culture. And one of the aspects of white supremacist culture, according to the Smithsonian's own anti-racist toolkit, is objectivity," Gill said.

He added: "So I simply asked her, do you believe that as part of the historical process, you ought to be objective as your goal? She said yes. So I asked her if she was promoting white supremacist culture at the Smithsonian as part of the same document."

Gill continued: "They had listed politeness as part of a white supremacist culture. So I asked her about that as well, whether being polite is important. She said yes. So I asked her if she was a white supremacist."

The hearing followed a July 4 White House Domestic Policy Council report accusing the museum of ideological bias in its treatment of the American founding, immigration, race, and gender.

The 162-page report said museum employees regularly discussed a "Museums as a Site for Social Action" toolkit containing a document that identified objectivity, individualism, and other traits as characteristics of white supremacy culture.

President Donald Trump ordered the review in March 2025 as part of an effort to remove what the administration called divisive or anti-American ideology from Smithsonian properties.

Hartig said in written testimony that the report did not fairly characterize the museum's complete body of work and that its exhibits are governed by standards of scholarship, accuracy, independence, and nonpartisanship.

"Listen, I didn't make these rules. These are the rules that the left made, and I think it's our job to hold them to them," Gill said.

Gill also criticized the museum's treatment of immigration, transgender Americans, and popular culture, including a display connecting Mickey Mouse to traditions of blackface minstrelsy.

He argued that the museum has minimized the nation's founders while presenting politically progressive themes to young visitors, a characterization the museum director disputed.

Gill also predicted the House would approve a fiscal 2027 budget resolution to launch work on a third Republican reconciliation bill carrying portions of the SAVE America Act.

The House Budget Committee advanced the resolution 20-14 last Thursday, but it must still pass the full House and Senate before committees can write the legislation.

"Listen, we hope that it will get through the Senate as well. You know, what we're trying to do is do anything we possibly can to get the SAVE America Act to the president's desk. And if we can't get the act itself, get as many components of the SAVE America Act to the president's desk. And that's what we're trying to do as part of this reconciliation bill," Gill said.

Anthea M. Hartig

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthea_M._Hartig

Anthea M. Hartig (born 1964) is an American historian and museum administrator who is the director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian trustees appointed Hartig as director beginning in 2019, succeeding John Gray. She is the museum's first female director.

With a background in historic preservation and museums, Hartig was earlier the director of the California Historical Society.

Early life and career

Hartig received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California, Los Angeles, and spent part of her undergraduate career studying at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.^[2] She received her master's degree in public history from the University of California, Riverside in 1989 and her Ph.D. in American architectural history and material culture studies from UC-Riverside in 2001.

Reposting This Research for the Parent's That are Fighting the Public Schools Ideology. Norman Dodd Uncovered the Lefts Plans in 1954 During His Investigation. It's Important to Know Who You're Fighting! (Past Research on the American Historical Association & the Norman Dodd Interview)

Friday, July 22, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2018/03/those-who-walked-out-of-schools-on.html

ED GRIFFIN: Mr. Dodd, you have spoken before about some interesting things that were discovered by Katherine Casey at the Carnegie Endowment. Can you tell us that story, please?

NORMAN DODD: Yes, I’d be glad to, Mr. Griffin. This experience that you just referred to came about in response to a letter that I had written to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, asking certain questions and gathering certain information. On the arrival of that letter, Dr. Johnson, who was then president of the Carnegie Endowment, telephoned me and said, did I ever come up to New York. I said yes, I did more or less each weekend, and he said, “Well, when you're next here, will you drop in and see us?” Which I did.
On arrival at the office of the endowment I found myself in the presence of Dr. Joseph Johnson, the president – who was the successor to Alger Hiss – two vice presidents, and their own counsel, a partner in the firm of Sullivan and Cromwell. Dr. Johnson said, after again amenities, Mr. Dodd, we have your letter. We can answer all those questions, but it would be a great deal of trouble, and we have a counter suggestion. Our counter suggestion is: If you can spare a member of your staff for two weeks and send that member up to New York, we will give to that member a room in the library and the minute books of this foundation since its inception, and we think that whatever you want to find out or that Congress wants to find out will be obvious from those minutes.
Well, my first reaction was they'd lost their minds. I had a pretty good idea of what those minutes would contain, but I realized that Dr. Johnson had only been in office two years, and the other vice presidents were relatively young men, and counsel seemed to be also a young man, and I guessed that probably they'd never read the minutes themselves. So I said I had somebody; I would accept their offer.
I went back to Washington and I selected a member of my staff who had been a practicing attorney in Washington. She was on my staff to see to it that I didn't break any congressional procedures or rules, in addition to which she was unsympathetic to the purpose of the investigation. She was level-headed and a very reasonably brilliant, capable lady. Her attitude toward the investigation was: What could possibly be wrong with foundations? They do so much good.
Well, in the face of that sincere conviction of Katherine's I went out of my way not to prejudice her in any way, but I did explain to her that she couldn't possibly cover 50 years of written minutes in two weeks, so she would have to do what we call spot reading. I blocked out certain periods of time to concentrate on, and off she went to New York. She came back at the end of two weeks with the following on dictaphone tapes:

We are now at the year 1908, which was the year that the Carnegie Foundation began operations. In that year, the trustees, meeting for the first time, raised a specific question, which they discussed throughout the balance of the year in a very learned fashion. The question is: “Is there any means known more effective than war, assuming you wish to alter the life of an entire people?” And they conclude that no more effective means than war to that end is known to humanity.
So then, in 1909, they raised the second question and discussed it, namely: “How do we involve the United States in a war?”
Well, I doubt at that time if there was any subject more removed from the thinking of most of the people of this country than its involvement in a war. There were intermittent shows in the Balkans, but I doubt very much if many people even knew where the Balkans were. Then, finally, they answered that question as follows: “We must control the State Department.” That very naturally raises the question of how do we do that? And they answer it by saying: “We must take over and control the diplomatic machinery of this country.” And, finally, they resolve to aim at that as an objective.
Then time passes, and we are eventually in a war, which would be World War I. At that time they record on their minutes a shocking report in which they dispatched to President Wilson a telegram, cautioning him to see that the war does not end too quickly.
Finally, of course, the war is over. At that time their interest shifts over to preventing what they call a reversion of life in the United States to what it was prior to 1914 when World War I broke out. At that point they came to the conclusion that, to prevent a reversion, “we must control education in the United States.” They realize that that's a pretty big task. It is too big for them alone, so they approach the Rockefeller Foundation with the suggestion that that portion of education which could be considered domestic be handled by the Rockefeller Foundation and that portion which is international should be handled by the Endowment. They then decide that the key to success of these two operations lay in the alteration of the teaching of American history.
So they approach four of the then-most prominent teachers of American history in the country – people like Charles and Mary Byrd – and their suggestion to them is: will they alter the manner in which they present their subject? And they got turned down flat. So they then decide that it is necessary for them to do as they say, “build our own stable of historians.”
Then they approach the Guggenheim Foundation, which specializes in fellowships, and say: “When we find young men in the process of studying for doctorates in the field of American history and we feel that they are the right caliber, will you grant them fellowships on our say-so?” And the answer is yes. So, under that condition, eventually they assembled assemble twenty, and they take this twenty potential teachers of American history to London, and there they're briefed on what is expected of them when, as, and if they secure appointments in keeping with the doctorates they will have earned. That group of twenty historians ultimately becomes the nucleus of the American Historical Association.
Toward the end of the 1920's, the Endowment grants to the American Historical Association $400,000 for a study of our history in a manner which points to what can this country look forward to in the future. That culminates in a seven-volume study, the last volume of which is, of course, in essence a summary of the contents of the other six. The essence of the last volume is: The future of this country belongs to collectivism administered with characteristic American efficiency. That's the story that ultimately grew out of and, of course, was what could have been presented by the members of this Congressional committee to the congress as a whole for just exactly what it said. They never got to that point.

Connecting the Dots:

Anthea M. Hartig received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California, Los Angeles, and spent part of her undergraduate career studying at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, received her master's degree in public history from the University of California, Riverside in 1989 and her Ph.D. in American architectural history material culture studies from UC-Riverside in 2001, director of the California Historical Society and is the director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

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