A sign with the word “vagina” was also blurred and the word “pussy” was erased from another sign. Those words were altered because the museum has many young visitors and there was concern they might be inappropriate, Ms. Kleiman told The Post. Rinku Sen, a president of the board of directors for the Women’s March, on Saturday called the alterations a “symbol of the degradation of democracy.”“The National Archives are our public historians and historians are not meant to change history but to report it,” she said. “Museums, archives, and stewards of our historic artifacts should absolutely never change or alter visual or written content in primary sources,” said Rhae Lynn Barnes, a professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University. “That is something totalitarian governments do.”She added: “American history is hopeful and uplifting and triumphant, but it’s also dark and disturbing.

Source: New York Times January 18, 2020 19:00 UTC