This page is part of a resource collection on far right extremism.
Book
Jason Stanley: Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.
Articles
February 13. The New York Times: U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website.
March 6. Sarah Edwards: Federal Agency Deletes Website Page On Durham’s Pauli Murray; Censors Other References to Queer History.
March 7. The New York Times: These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration.
March 27. AP News: Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with ‘improper ideology.’
March 29. AP News: Critics see Trump attacks on the ‘Black Smithsonian’ as an effort to sanitize racism in US history.
April 5. Tiffany Hsu: The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It:As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said.
April 6: Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad.
April 10. NPR: ‘What did I say in class today?’: Teachers feel watched under Trump’s anti-DEI push.