I wonder how many people will report the White House...
05.12.2025 23:49
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I wonder how many people will report the White House...
Causing trouble on nokings day.
#nokings Greenville, NC
The AHA has signed on to the @acls1919.bsky.social’s Statement Regarding the White House Review of Smithsonian Institution Museums. The review “supersedes the oversight of professional scholars and makes the museums tools of the presidential administration.” 🗃️
AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel was featured in national media outlets covering Trump’s announcement of a “sweeping review” of the Smithsonian. "Political interference into content and curatorial practices places at risk the integrity and accuracy of historical interpretation," Weicksel said.
@acls1919.bsky.social, the AHA, & @modernlanguage.bsky.social filed a lawsuit in federal district court today, seeking to reverse the recent actions of the NEH to devastate the agency, including the elimination of grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs. 🗃️
If you’re in office—and you don’t call this out—you’re choosing a side.
Silence is compliance.
And “oops, I didn’t notice the dictatorial threat” won’t cut it.
Update from President Ryan UNIVERSITY VIRGINIA To the University community: I am writing, with a very heavy heart, to let you know that I have submitted my resignation as President of the University of Virginia To make a long story short, I am inclined to fight for what I believe in, and I believe deeply in this University. But I cannot make a unilateral decision to fight the federal government in order to save my own job. To do so would not only be quixotic but appear selfish and self-centered to the hundreds of employees who would lose their jobs, the researchers who would lose their funding, and the hundreds of students who could lose financial aid or have their visas withheld. This is especially true because I had decided that next year would be my last, for reasons entirely separate from this episode—including the fact that we concluded our capital campaign and have implemented nearly all of the major initiatives in our strategic plan.
be my last, for reasons entirely separate from this episode-including the fact that we concluded our capital campaign and have implemented nearly all of the major initiatives in our strategic plan. While there are very important principles at play here, I would at a very practical level be fighting to keep my job for one more year while knowingly and willingly sacrificing others in this community. If this were not so distinctly tied to me personally, I may have pursued a different path. But I could not in good conscience cause real and direct harm to my colleagues and our students in order to preserve my own position. It has been an honor to be your President. Thanks for the outpouring of support over the last few days and weeks. My deepest gratitude to all of the faculty, staff, students, and alumni, who make this University and this community both great and good. This was an excruciatingly difficult decision, and I am heartbroken to be leaving this way. Best, Jim Jim Ryan President
Sharing this note from the UVa president. I am so heartbroken and infuriated by these politically-motivated attacks on US higher education.
The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America newrepublic.com/article/1970... via @newrepublic.com
I should have posted the more striking banner image…
#ArchivesAreForEveryone
No Kings Greenville, NC!
The official focus of the parade is the commemoration of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary. But critics say the president is using the military show of force to push a political agenda and celebrate his birthday, which happens to fall on the same date.
“Liberating” the city from its democratically elected leaders = liberating it from democracy.
The blunt and ugly truth.
I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.
For the record:
The Confederates fought a war against the United States to defend the institution of slavery.
Period.
Rereading Connell's Masculinities and wondered if current antihigher ed trends are partially rooted in gender bias.With rising number of women and nonbinary people going to college, is discussion of ed being feminized?Is this why there have been so many attacks on higher ed?Any reading suggestions?
An administration that wants to curtail, cut off, control, and punish knowledge and learning is trying to stamp out independence and resistance.
It is a scared administration.
Because knowledge is power.
YES
It’s not enough, all by itself.
By far.
But in building a movement, it matters.
Wow! So impressed by all of the protests today!
Adding this to my reading list!
AHA member @benjaminepark.bsky.social asks, “What is patriotic education and why is it such a threat to … ethical, accurate, and fair understanding of America’s past?”
The AHA has released a statement in support of the Smithsonian Institution, the target of the recent EO, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” This order “egregiously misrepresents the work of the Smithsonian Institution” and “completely misconstrues the nature of historical work.” 🗃️
The AHA has 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.” 🗃️
Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.
"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."
Trump is trying to gut libraries. Fight back with ALA. Show up for our libraries. ALA American Library Association
Trump’s trying to gut funding for libraries: you can fight back with ALA.
The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.
Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
The AHA and the OAH have released a joint statement condemning recent efforts to censor historical content on federal government websites, at many public museums, and across a wide swath of government resources that include essential data. To date, 23 organizations have signed on to the statement. 🗃️
The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
The AHA and the OAH have released a joint statement condemning recent efforts to censor historical content on federal government websites, at many public museums, and across a wide swath of government resources that include essential data. 🗃️
Association of University Presses logo
We join with @historians.org, @oah.org & others to denounce US goverment's efforts to censor historical content in public resources.
These mandates are deeply antithetical to our community's work of stewarding & preserving the integrity of the scholarly record.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4hxQHlu
"History" is a bad word now?!
