A year after President Donald Trump vowed to overhaul the narrative at the Smithsonian, the administration's 160-page critique reveals an attempt to sanitise American history, raising questions about the complexities of the nation's past.

The report comes in the midst of Trump’s aggressive campaign to overhaul some of Washington's most sacred cultural and historic institutions

The White House has accused Smithsonian Institution leadership of adopting a divisive ideological framework that erases American heritage.