Terry Gerton, “The Federal Register is flashing warning signs,<\/a>” (Federal News Network<\/em>, September 24, 2025).<\/p>\n Rebekah Riess, “Censoring museums risks diminishing American exceptionalism, experts warn<\/a>,” (CNN<\/em>, September 17, 2025).<\/p>\n Jennifer Schuessler, “As Partisans Battle Over History, Former Presidents Try Another Tack,<\/a>” (The New York Times, September 17, 2025).<\/p>\n Yair Rosenberg, “The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler<\/a>,” (The Atlantic,<\/em> September 3, 2025)<\/p>\n “Whitewashing of History”: Harvard Historian on Trump’s Targeting of School Curricula, Smithsonian<\/a>, (Democracy Now!<\/em>, August 18, 2025).<\/p>\n Johann Neem, “Trump Is the Enemy of the American Revolution<\/a>,” (The New Republic<\/em>, August 11, 2025).<\/p>\n William Sturkey, “Trump’s White Nationalist Vision for the Future of History<\/a>,” (The New Republic<\/em>, August 11, 2025).<\/p>\n Eliot A. Cohen, “Hegseth’s Headlong Pursuit of Academic Mediocrity<\/a>,” (The Atlantic<\/em>, August 6, 2025).<\/p>\n Michael Scherer, “The War Over America’s Birthday Party<\/a>,” (The Atlantic<\/em>, August 6, 2025).<\/p>\n Ryan Mancini, “New senate bill would codify Trump order to ban ‘wokeness’ from Smithsonian<\/a>,” (MassLive<\/em>, July 23, 2025).<\/p>\n Sarah Wright, “What’s Going on With the Muir Woods Exhibit Removal?<\/a>” (KQED<\/em>, July 23, 2025).<\/p>\n John Lawrence, “Uncle Sam wants you … to rat on national parks that reflect true history<\/a>,” (LA Times<\/em>, July 15, 2025).<\/p>\n Richard Ovenden, “‘There is no political power without power over the archive’<\/a>,” (The Observer<\/em>, July 12, 2025).<\/p>\n Jake Spring, Hannah Natanson and Anusha Mathur, “Parks gift shops directed to report items that ‘disparage Americans,’<\/a>” (The Washington Post<\/em>, July 12, 2025).<\/p>\n Jerry Gershenhorn, “The story of Booker T. Spicely reminds us why NC shouldn’t erase racial history<\/a>,” (The Charlotte Observer<\/em>, July 5, 2025).<\/p>\n Michael Wilner, “Trump has big plans for America’s next birthday. Historians have questions<\/a>,” (Los Angeles Times,\u00a0<\/em>July 3, 2025).<\/p>\n Edda L. Fields-Black and Kate Clifford Larson, “Actually, Secretary Hegseth, Harriet Tubman was a war hero<\/a>,” (The Washington Post<\/em>, July 2, 2025).<\/p>\n Paul Solman, “A look at what’s behind the efforts to reshape how American history is taught<\/a>,” (PBS News Hour<\/em>, July 1, 2025).<\/p>\n Lisa Friedman, “National Parks Are Told to Delete Content That ‘Disparages Americans,’<\/a>” (The New York Times<\/em>, June 13, 2025).<\/p>\n Chloe Veltman, “National Park signage encourages the public to help erase negative stories at its sites<\/a>,”\u00a0(NPR<\/em>, June 10, 2025).<\/p>\n Petula Dvorak, “These historians oversee unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy. Trump fired them all<\/a>,” (The Washington Post<\/em>, May 28, 2025).<\/p>\n Drew Gilpin Faust, “We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up<\/a>,” (The New York Times<\/em>, May 26, 2025).<\/p>\n Olivia Hebert, “National parks ordered to police ‘negative’ history under Trump directive<\/a>,”(SF Gate<\/em>, May 23, 2025).<\/p>\n Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney, “Trump administration asks Supreme Court to keep DOGE records secret<\/a>,” (Politico<\/em>, May 21, 2025).<\/p>\nHuo Jingnan and Quil Lawrence, “Here Are All the Ways People Are Disappearing from Government Websites<\/a>,” (NPR<\/em>, March 19, 2025).\n Bill Chappell, “These 7 executive actions show how Trump wants to reshape American history<\/a>,” (NPR<\/em>, May 11, 2025).<\/p>\n Oliver Rosales, “Community Voices: Bakersfield’s history does not meet the president’s agenda<\/a>,” (Bakersfield.com, May 7, 2025)<\/p>\n Clyde McGrady, “Trump’s Order to Sanitize Black History Meets Institutional Resistance<\/a>,” (New York Times<\/em>, May 6, 2025).<\/p>\n Jeffrey Brown and Simon Epstein, “Exploring the efforts to control how U.S. history is presented in museums and monuments<\/a>,” (PBS NewsHour<\/em>, May 1, 2025).<\/p>\n r\/AskHistorians, “Joint Subreddit Statement: The Attack on U.S. Research Infrastructure<\/a>,” (Reddit,<\/em> April 30, 2025).<\/p>\n Sean Wilentz, “Vance’s Junk History<\/a>,” (The New York Review<\/em>, April 25, 2025).<\/p>\n Ed Pilkington, “Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety,<\/a>” (The Guardian<\/em>, April 24, 2025).<\/p>\n “American Oversight Sues DOGE, Trump Officials for Violating Federal Records Act<\/a>,” (American Oversight<\/em>, April 23, 2025).<\/p>\n Monica Hesse, “Scroll through Trump’s new covid website – and have your mind blown<\/a>,” (The Washington Post<\/em>, April 23, 2025).<\/p>\n Jennifer Schuessler, “Trump’s American History Revolution<\/a>,” (New York Times<\/em>, April 19, 2025).<\/p>\n Petula Dvorak, “Trump says he’s erasing ‘shame.’ Critics say he’s hiding historic truths<\/a>,” (The Washington Post<\/em>, April 9, 2025.)<\/p>\n Milo Strain, “Trump administration’s censorship of Central High museum website broader than initially reported<\/a>,” (Arkansas Times<\/em>, April 9, 2025).<\/p>\n Kelly Kasulis Cho, “National Park Service restores Underground Railroad webpage after outcry<\/a>,” (The Washington Post<\/em>, April 8, 2025).<\/p>\n Tatyana Tandanpolie,”‘It’s sickening’: Trump order censoring Black history displays a ‘fundamental misunderstanding,’<\/a>” (Salon<\/em>, April 8, 2025).<\/p>\n April Ryan, “Trump Targets a Slavery Removal from the National Museum of African-American History and Culture<\/a>,” (BlackPressUSA<\/em>, April 7, 2025).<\/p>\n Jon Swaine and Jeremy B. Merrill, “Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad<\/a>,” (The Washington Post<\/em>, April 6, 2025).<\/p>\n Tiffany Hsu, “The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It<\/a>,” (New York Times<\/em>, April 5, 2025).<\/p>\n Darreonna Davis, “Naval Academy’s full list of nearly 400 books on race, gender pulled from library<\/a>,” (The Baltimore Banner<\/em>, April 4, 2025).<\/p>\n Thomas A. Foster, “What it’s like to be a US historian right now<\/a>,” (The Hill<\/em>, April 2, 2025).<\/p>\n Kellie Carter Jackson, “Trump will not stop until every American relic reflects his imaginary world view<\/a>,” (The Guardian<\/em>, April 1, 2025).<\/p>\n David W. Blight, “Trump Cannot Win His War on History<\/a>,” (New York Times<\/em>, March 31, 2025).<\/p>\n David M. Perry, “A Truly Patriotic Education Tells Many Stories<\/a>,” (Foreign Policy<\/em>, March 31, 2025).<\/p>\n Melissa Bokovoy, “Digital erasure: How the federal government is diminishing New Mexico’s history<\/a>,” (Albuquerque Journal<\/em>, March 30, 2025).<\/p>\n Dana Hedgpeth, “Anger, then relief after Pentagon restores Navajo code talker webpages<\/a>,” (Washington Post<\/em>, March 22, 2025).<\/p>\n Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, “Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention<\/a>,” (CNN<\/em>, March 19, 2025).<\/p>\n Terry Tang, “Pentagon restores histories of Navajo Code Talkers, other Native veterans after public outcry<\/a>,” (Associated Press<\/em>, March 19, 2025).<\/p>\n Erin Alberty, “Exclusive: Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites after Trump DEI order<\/a>,” (Axios<\/em>, March 17, 2025).<\/p>\n Fernando Cervantes Jr., “Black Medal of Honor recipient’s government page briefly inaccessible; ‘deimedal’ added to URL<\/a>,” (USA Today<\/em>, March 17, 2025).<\/p>\n Jerry Mitchell, “Trump once hailed WWII vet Medgar Evers as a ‘great American hero.’ Now the U.S. Army has erased him from the Arlington National Cemetery website<\/a>,” (Mississippi Today<\/em>, March 17, 2025).<\/p>\n Tobi Raji and Michael E. Ruane, “Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans<\/a>,” (Washington Post<\/em>, March 14, 2025).<\/p>\n Matt White, “Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans<\/a>,” (Task & Purpose<\/em>, March 13, 2025).<\/p>\n Kevin Levin, “US Army Deletes Lesson Plans Focusing on African American History, the Civil War and Women’s History at Arlington National Cemetery<\/a>,” (Substack,<\/em> March 8, 2025).<\/p>\n Steve Beynon, “Army Deleting Online Content Related to Women, Minorities Using Key Words Like ‘Respect’ and ‘Dignity’<\/a>,” (Military.com<\/em>, February 28, 2025).<\/p>\n Julian Shen-Berro, “After pressure from families, NYC schools chancellor reaffirms support for LGBTQ+ students<\/a>,” (Chalkbeat<\/em>, February 24, 2025).<\/p>\n Alex Zimmerman, “LGBTQ history videos find new home after PBS pulls content due to Trump executive orders<\/a>,” (Chalkbeat<\/em>, February 19, 2025).<\/p>\n Ed Shanahan, Katherine Rosman, and Liam Stack, “US Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website<\/a>,” (The New York Times<\/em>, February 13, 2025).<\/p>\n Frank Langfitt, “NSA museum covered plaques honoring women and people of color, provoking an uproar<\/a>,” (NPR Morning Edition<\/em>, February 5, 2025).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\tInitiatives to Preserve Government Records & Publications<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n Federal Employees\u00a0and\u00a0Contractors Oral History Project<\/a><\/p>\n Records\u00a0at\u00a0Risk Data Collection Initiative<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Early Republic Tracker<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Archiving Military History Resources<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n These statements, letters, and op-eds represent only one aspect of the AHA’s advocacy on behalf of historians employed by the federal government. Among other efforts, we are engaging with federal historians on how best to support them and their agencies, closely monitoring legislation and executive orders and tracking job losses for historians, and coordinating with AHA affiliates and other partners on critical advocacy to support historians and history education at the federal and state levels. Please donate to the AHA’s Advocacy Fund<\/a>\u00a0to support this vital work.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDonate\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n On March 24, the AHA released a statement condemning “the dismantling of federal departments and agencies through the indiscriminate termination of federal employees and elimination of programs, including historical offices.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead Now\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t The American Historical Association supports historians employed by the federal government. We appreciate the important work they do every day to preserve, chronicle, and interpret American history. The AHA recognizes that our colleagues in the federal government are facing unprecedented workforce reductions.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\tArticles & Op-Eds<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t Ryan Quinn, “Trump Gutted the Institute of Education Sciences. Its Renewal Is in Doubt<\/a>,” (Inside Higher Ed<\/em>, October 21, 2025).<\/p>\n Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards, “These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department<\/a>,” (ProPublica<\/em>, October 8, 2025).<\/p>\n Mark Lieberman, “Trump Admin. Cancels Dozens More Grants, Hitting Civics, Arts, and Higher Ed<\/a>,” (Education Week<\/em>, September 16, 2025).<\/p>\n Benjamin Mullin, Jack Healy, and David W. Chen, “After Trump’s Cuts, ‘Crippled’ NPR and PBS Stations Must Transform<\/a>,” (The New York Times,<\/em> September 13, 2025).<\/p>\n Sara Weissman, “Education Department Moves to End Funding for Minority-Serving Institutions,<\/a>” (Inside Higher Ed<\/em>, September 11, 2025).<\/p>\n Eileen Sullivan, “Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights<\/a>,” (The New York Times<\/em>, September 1, 2025).<\/p>\n Mike Hale, “As PBS Stations Confront Cuts, American History Takes a Hit,<\/a>” (The New York Times<\/em>, August 28, 2025).<\/p>\n Toluse Olorunnipa, “Why the White House Backed Down From Its First Big Education Cuts<\/a>,” (The Atlantic,\u00a0<\/em>August 5, 2025).<\/p>\n Ben Austen, “How Trump’s War on Higher Education Is Hitting Community Colleges<\/a>,” (The New York Times<\/em>, August 4, 2025).<\/p>\n Mark Lieberman, “See How Much Federal Money Trump Is Holding Back From Your District<\/a>,” (EducationWeek<\/em>, July 8, 2025).<\/p>\n “You Are Not Alone: A Resource Guide for Civil Servants Affected by the Supreme Court’s RIF Decision<\/a>,” (Civil Service Strong<\/em>, July 8, 2025).<\/p>\n Zahava Stadler\u00a0and\u00a0Jordan Abbott, “A District-by-District Accounting of the $6.2 Billion the U.S. Department of Education Has Held Back from Schools<\/a>,” (New America<\/em>, July 7, 2025).<\/p>\n Steve Inskeep, “Trump fires historians who put together unbiased accounts of U.S. foreign policy<\/a>,” (NPR<\/em>, June 3, 2025).<\/p>\n Meryl Kornfield and Hannah Natanson, “It’s called the Library of Congress. But Trump claims it’s his<\/a>,” (Washington Post<\/em>, May 20, 2025).<\/p>\n Sonia Rao, “Will federal funding cuts spell the end for history documentaries?<\/a>” (Washington Post<\/em>, May 20, 2025).<\/p>\n Rebecca Brenner Graham, “Trump Is Waging a Culture War on the Library of Congress. It’s Been Done Before<\/a>,” (Politico<\/em>, May 18, 2025).<\/p>\n Anne Mitchell Whisnant, “Modern Language Association<\/h4>\nResources on Legislative Threats to Higher Education<\/a>\n
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