Who owns history? It's been a central question since President Trump re-entered the White House.

His administration's efforts to strip diversity, equity, and inclusion programs prompted the

Defense Department to remove thousands of web pages and images honoring the contributions of women

and people of color, like the Navajo Code Talkers who served during the World Wars. The Pentagon is now

restoring at least some of those web pages after much pushback, including one honoring Black

Medal of Honor recipient Army Major General Charles Calvin Rogers. The website URL had labeled that

a DEI Medal of Honor, which the DOD now says was a mistake.

For a deeper look at what stories are told and which are ignored and why, we're joined by

Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan.

Let's start with the Defense Department, which has been the most active on this front.

In the early days of the administration,

the Pentagon temporarily removed training material about the Tuskegee Airmen. There was more

recently the deleted information about the code talkers, which we mentioned. Add to that,

Arlington National Cemetery, removing histories that highlighted black, Hispanic, and female veterans from its

website. How is the administration, in your view, seeking to shape the national identity and

the historical memory with these actions? Well, the Defense Department is a great place to start.

They tell the story of American history through the story of individuals,

through the story of heroes who did amazing things for the U.S. military at different points

in time. And so once you start to selectively erase the stories of those individuals,

you're also erasing American military history. And some of that is

incredibly interesting history if you look at something like the Navajo co-talkers, where in that

case, you can't tell the story of how they were such an advantage during World War II without

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