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Kimberlé Crenshaw & Jason Stanley: Why Trump’s ‘anti-woke’ attack on the Smithsonian matters.
News: 2025
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.
May 7. Nikole Hannah-Jones: Trump Is Erasing Black History.
May 19. Scot Nakagawa: The Attack on Historical Memory: The Void of Memory Creates an Opportunity for Authoritarians.
May 21. Bill Chappell: These 7 executive actions show how Trump wants to reshape American history.
August 19. Zolan Kanno-Youngs: Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was.’
August 19. Neda Ulaby: Trump expands ‘woke’ criticism from Smithsonian to other museums.
August 27. Kimberlé Crenshaw & Jason Stanley: Why Trump’s ‘anti-woke’ attack on the Smithsonian matters.
September 3. Kristian Monroe: ‘Founders Museum’ from White House and PragerU blurs history, AI-generated fiction.
September 15. Jake Spring & Hannah Natanson: National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars.
September 16. Victoria Hansen: Books about slavery could be removed from NPS museums, gift shops.
September 18. Alan Elrod: MAGA Is Revising the Past to Create the Future They Want.
September 18. Nikole Hannah-Jones: Nikole Hannah-Jones knows why history feels dangerous.
September 20. Jake Spring: National parks axe signs about climate, slavery and Japanese internment.