Another whitewashing of history?

This is an interesting long-form piece about how Harvard wanted to know about how the slave trade was handled at the university.  Its worth a read... 

...but for anyone who wants the cliffs notes version, essentially someone was hired to do the research and what he found was that there was a lot of overlooked elements of slavery that helped build the university, and even several prominent people involved with the founding were slave owners.  The researcher was asked to limit his findings because this was a source of shame.  And when he didn't, he was let go, and the university turned the research over to a company doing more genealogy and less shining a light on slavery.

Which is shameful in its own right.  The past happened.  Why can't we just own up to it and move on?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved