Toward the end of 2021, Fox News host, Howard Kurtz authored an article titled, “The Capitol Riot and Revisionist History: The Battle Over the Jan. 6 Legacy.” Kurtz’s title captures a very important battle in the conflict over how history gets remembered and recorded. Emerging from the work of Northwestern University alumnus and journalist Steven Saint Thomas, this work explores January 6, 2020, as an historical fact, and not as a romanticized fictious account.
University of Wisconsin – Madison Professor Emeritus, historian Dr. William L. Van Deburg, stated that a “‘fact’ is a verified happening.” Unfortunately remembering, describing, labeling, and recording historical facts is contestable. The one-year anniversary of the shocking and disturbing occurrence from January 6, 2021, serves as a prime example. Consider the following versions from a constellation of sources:
On that day last year, 800 patriots responded to an appeal from then President Donald J. Trump calling for Americans to ascend on the nation’s capital in Washington, D.C. Trump tweeted: “The BIG Protest Rally in Washington, D.C., will take place at 11.00 A.M. on January 6th. Location and details to follow. StopTheSteal!”
Dr. Cornelius Gilbert
The rally sought to protest the November 2020 presidential election results that many viewed as rigged against the American people. “We’re storming the Capital,” as a result because, “It’s a revolution” stated “Elizabeth” from Knoxville, Tennessee who participated in the attack on the Capital.
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