{"id":109411,"date":"2026-01-15T11:47:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/?p=109411"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:47:57","slug":"aha-executive-director-defends-independence-of-the-smithsonian-institution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/news\/aha-executive-director-defends-independence-of-the-smithsonian-institution\/","title":{"rendered":"AHA Executive Director Defends Independence of the Smithsonian Institution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Society\/2026\/0113\/smithsonian-museum-deadline-trump-ideology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em><\/a>, AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel defended the Smithsonian Institution in the face of interference by the Trump administration, affirming the value of nuance in museum exhibits. \u201cA museum is never intended to produce a single definitive story,\u201d Weicksel says. It is \u201can entry point for visitors to learn, to question, and to continue to explore once they leave that museum.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article in the Christian Science Monitor, AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel defended the Smithsonian Institution in the face&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"aha-topic":[],"month":[],"geographic-taxonomy":[],"post-type":[579,582,897,591],"thematic-taxonomy":[],"year":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-109411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"post-type-academic-freedom","8":"post-type-aha-in-news","9":"post-type-federal-government","10":"post-type-museums","15":"has-featured-image"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109414,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109411\/revisions\/109414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aha-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aha-topic?post=109411"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=109411"},{"taxonomy":"geographic-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/geographic-taxonomy?post=109411"},{"taxonomy":"post-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-type?post=109411"},{"taxonomy":"thematic-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematic-taxonomy?post=109411"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=109411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}