Resurrecting the Lost Cause at the Smithsonian Institution and Arlington National Cemetery| the.ink
AHA–OAH Joint Statement on Federal Censorship of American History| AHA
NCSL’s State-Federal team is tracking the latest states-related executive orders, policies and memoranda issued by the Trump administration.| www.ncsl.org
Jackson Home, where Martin Luther King Jr. strategized Selma marches, is now preserved at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn.| Outlier Media
Vanderbilt’s abandonment of DEI reflects a broader national effort to deny structural racism exists.| The Vanderbilt Hustler - The official student newspaper of Vanderbilt University
A statue of a Confederate general toppled and burned in Washington, D.C., in 2020 will be reinstalled.| ARTnews.com
No federal administration has moved as swiftly to exert broad new controls over what people can say, read, learn, research, and think.| PEN America
It was the latest effort to combat what the Trump administration calls “erasing American history.”| Sun Sentinel
Seventeen Democratic officials from a variety of states filed suit against the Trump administration in federal court on Aug. 1.| Philadelphia Gay News
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Trump’s war on language doesn’t just shake US politics — it threatens global discourse. The world must reclaim words before meaning slips away| www.ips-journal.eu
"It is the American people who will suffer most."| SFGATE
President Trump targets museums he said push divisive ideology. Activists and historians say he's trying to erase the nation's tarnished history.| USA TODAY
“David Geier is the ideal fit to the purposes of RFK Jr. For the only reliably loyal underlings are incompetent ones who know they have no future anywhere else. ” – Smut Clyde| For Better Science
The American Historical Association has released a statement in support of the Smithsonian Institution, the target of the recent executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” This order “egregiously misrepresents the work of the Smithsonian Institution” and “completely misconstrues the nature of historical work.” AHA executive director Jim…| AHA
Only the US Dept of Education can do this. See 15 Profoundly Important Transformations they can provide.| criticallythinking.substack.com
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