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SOURCE: Washington Post
2/98/2021
Black History is Often Shunned, Like the Book I Wrote
by Martha S. Jones
The historian of voting rights and Black women's activism examines the reaction to a planned discussion of her book through a Louisiana public library.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/22/2020
The Latest Chapter in Mississippi’s Long History of Squelching Anti-Racist Activism
by William Sturkey
The silencing of journalists and academics has always been integral to the regime of white supremacy in Mississippi. Now that new challenges are emerging to that regime, attacks on academic freedom, including the firing of historian Garrett Felber, have resurfaced.
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SOURCE: CNN
11/18/2020
Hong Kong's New Rules have Created Confusion in the Classroom. Some Parents are Pulling their Children Out
While pro-Beijing lawmakers stress the need to promote national unity through civics education, educators, historians and parents in Hong Kong expect censorship and indoctrination under new restrictions.
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SOURCE: Rest of World
10/26/2020
Control, Alter, Delete:Hong Kong Activists and Academics are Hurrying to Digitize Historical Records
Museums dedicated to the struggle for civil liberties in Hong Kong face a crisis to preserve records in the face of new public safety laws aimed at curbing criticism of the People's Republic of China.
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SOURCE: Forbes
9/6/2020
Call Trump’s Attacks On The 1619 Project What They Are — Censorship of American History
The 1619 Project has been published for a year. Why, now, is Donald Trump making a political issue over its use in schools? The author says it's not about teaching history but shaping national propaganda.
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8/16/2020
Who Shaped the Story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
by William Johnston
Most Americans' knowledge of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflects how American leaders in 1945 wanted the atomic bombings remembered more than their real history.
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SOURCE: Network of Concerned Historians
8/13/2020
Network of Concerned Historians Releases 2020 Annual Report on Global Incidents of Repression of Historians
The Network of Concerned Historians releases a comprehensive report of global incidents of censorship, government suppression, archival restriction, or private harassment campaigns against historians for the past year.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
7/24/2020
A Magazine Story Opened Eyes to Hiroshima’s Horror. White House Allies Plotted to Shut Them Again.
by Greg Mitchell
The Hersey article, with its unflinching account of what survivors witnessed in Hiroshima, threatened the official narrative of justification.
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6/14/2020
John F. Kennedy Did What Donald Trump Only Wishes He Could Do
by Paul Matzko
Rules to promote “fairness” or prevent “discrimination” can all too easily turn into tools for gaining partisan advantage at the expense of free speech, a free press, and a functioning democracy.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
5/13/2020
Professor Apologizes for Using N-Word
How should professors approach teaching situations where their subjects--artists or historical figures--have used racial slurs?
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
3/17/2020
When “Fake News” Was Banned: An America Trump Might Have Loved
by Adam Hochschild
Exactly 100 years ago, this country’s media was laboring under the kind of official censorship that would undoubtedly thrill both Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo.
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SOURCE: New York Times Book Review
3/17/2020
A Stirring Family Saga Tells a Taboo History of Vietnam
by Gaiutra Bahadur
Americans may not know that literature has been doing history’s job with brutal episodes in Vietnam’s past.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/16/2020
How the Coronavirus Could Trigger a Backslide on Freedom Around the World
by Allie Funk and Isabel Linzer
Authorities worldwide are using the coronavirus as a pretext to crack down on human rights for political purposes.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/31/20
It wasn’t just the National Archives. The Library of Congress also balked at a Women’s March photo.
The library’s decision is the second-known instance of a federal government institution acting to prevent images it determined to be critical of Trump from being shown to the public.
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SOURCE: ArtNet
1/24/20
How the National Archives’ Notorious Alteration of a Women’s March Photo Is Part of a Long American Tradition
by Jennifer Tucker & Peter Rutland
Two professors explain how the image fits into the history of a country that has long sought to avoid discomfort.
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SOURCE: ArtNet
1/24/20
How the National Archives’ Notorious Alteration of a Women’s March Photo Is Part of a Long American Tradition
by Jennifer Tucker & Peter Rutland
Two professors explain how the image fits into the history of a country that has long sought to avoid discomfort.
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SOURCE: AHA
1/19/20
AHA Sends Letter to NARA Archivist about Altered Women's March Photo
The AHA sent the following letter to the Archivist of the United States objecting to the alteration of a photograph on exhibition and praising NARA staff for acknowledging this serious lapse in judgement.
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SOURCE: CNN
1/20/20
The National Archives' dangerous corruption of history
by David Perry
While the National Archives issued an apology and vowed to undergo "a thorough review" of its policies after the Washington Post first reported on the alteration, having discovered it by chance, as a historian I worry about how many other altered documents the Trump administration has buried in our records. Will we ever know?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/18/20
National Archives says it was wrong to alter images
“This photo is not an archival record held by the @usnatarchives, but one we licensed to use as a promotional graphic,” it said in another tweet. “Nonetheless, we were wrong to alter the image.”
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/17/20
National Archives exhibit blurs images critical of President Trump
A placard that proclaims “God Hates Trump” has “Trump” blotted out so that it reads “God Hates.” A sign that reads “Trump & GOP — Hands Off Women” has the word Trump blurred out.
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