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How America Chooses to Remember Itself: 200 Years of U.S. Museums, and Presenting the Civil War, Spanish Flu, and the Culture Wars

Published: Sept. 1, 2022, 8 a.m.

On an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. The New York Times wrote that \u201cthe destruction of so many of its fine collections will be viewed as a national calamity.\u201d Dazed soldiers and worried citizens...