It’s a measure of the fevered polarization in US society that even its history has become a matter of furious debate. Long before the current presidency, competing missions to redefine America’s origins plunged the past into the heart of today’s culture wars.
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From the 1619 project’s attempt to reframe history around the arrival of slaves, to the 1776 commission's firm counter-narrative, the battle over what should be taught in schools and preserved in museums is intensifying. On Monday, the President launched a new front in this war, releasing a report detailing serious complaints about "divisive narratives" and "liberal ideology" inside the Smithsonian Institute.
But beneath the partisan squabbling, the 250th anniversary of the nation raises a darker, existential question: Is this the revolutionary republic that defeated an empire, or is it now an empire in decline?
Piers Morgan is joined by a panel of distinguished historians to debate the future of the American soul: Lord Andrew Roberts, Douglas Brinkley, Roy Casagranda and Barry Strauss.
00:00 Introduction
02:05 Panel discussion begins
11:21 How does history view the progressive wave?
14:07 Is the whole premise of America founded on a lie?
16:53 Dave King’s historical works
19:02 Is Trump the most powerful person that ever lived?
23:00 America’s foreign policy since WW2
28:45 How unreliable are America’s European allies?
29:44 Netanyahu’s influence over America in the Iran war
34:20 Would Churchill have helped America if he were involved in the Iran war?
36:10 Conspiracy theories in America - will we ever find out the truth?
39:20 Who has been the greatest American President and the greatest British Monarch?
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