Pioneer Village celebrates American progress. It's a huge collection of the domestic technology that's transformed us. The signs hint that, after 1830, we left thousands of years of static life and began to progress into the modern age. New York editor Frederick Schwarz is troubled by all this. After all, implicit rules have grown up around both modern museums and the telling of history.
Progress is a bad word.
No historian believes in progress. But progress has to be toward something. Put it all in a modern social context. All this apparent progress took place at the expense of Native Americans, oppressed factory workers, subjugated women, and Afro-American contributions that've been made invisible. Pioneer Village was built by Harold Warp.