{"id":110343,"date":"2026-02-02T14:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/?p=110343"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:17:17","slug":"aha-executive-director-speaks-out-on-story-of-america-video-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/news\/aha-executive-director-speaks-out-on-story-of-america-video-series\/","title":{"rendered":"AHA Executive Director Speaks Out on \u201cStory of America\u201d Video Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel told <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgemi.com\/talent-education\/hillsdale-teams-with-trump-on-us-history-in-divided-land-not-all-are-thrilled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Bridge Michigan<\/em><\/a> that the White House\u2019s new \u201cStory of America\u201d video series \u201cfeels flat.\u201d \u201cThe commemoration of the 250th anniversary of American independence should provide opportunities for all Americans to learn from a shared history, and that has to include the recognition of the really complex challenges, the aspirations, the struggles across that history in their effort to enact the more perfect union,\u201d Weicksel said. She also noted that the series relies on a narrow group of experts. \u201cThe White House is opting to work with a small, ideologically aligned set of organizations and also challenging the motivations of anyone who disagrees with that particular vision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel told Bridge Michigan that the White House\u2019s new \u201cStory of America\u201d video series \u201cfeels flat.\u201d&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":[582],"thematic-taxonomy":[],"year":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-110343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"post-type-aha-in-news","9":"has-featured-image"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110343","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=110343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110346,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110343\/revisions\/110346"}],"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=110343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aha-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aha-topic?post=110343"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=110343"},{"taxonomy":"geographic-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/geographic-taxonomy?post=110343"},{"taxonomy":"post-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-type?post=110343"},{"taxonomy":"thematic-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematic-taxonomy?post=110343"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=110343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}