censorship

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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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• SOURCE: The Hill
  9/19/19
  

  Trump administration says joint UNC, Duke Middle East Studies program portrays Islam too positively

  The Trump administration is pressuring the University of North Carolina and Duke University to revise their joint Middle East studies program or risk federal funding.

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• SOURCE: Muck Rock
  8/21/19
  

  CIA instructed its historians to omit “embarrassing” details from the record

  In a formerly SECRET “Dos and Don’ts” regulation for historical officers, Agency suggested “unflattering statements” be avoided.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/4/19
  

  In China, a Reuters Partner Blocks Articles on the Tiananmen Square Massacre

  China has made efforts to quash public mentions of the day when tanks and troops moved into the Beijing plaza and crushed student-led protests.

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• SOURCE: Deadline Detroit
  1/31/19
  

  Dearborn Mayor Fires Author Of Magazine Story About Henry Ford's Anti-Semitism

  Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly, already under fire for killing the current issue of the city-funded Dearborn Historian because it carried a report on Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism, has now fired the magazine’s editor.

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• 2/10/19
  

  Combatting Crimes against History

  by Antoon De Baets

  Those who died while exercising their right to history are testimony to the fact that the historian’s craft is vulnerable, that its integrity needs constant vigilance and protection, that the defence of its basic principles is a duty for all, always, and everywhere.

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• SOURCE: hyperallergic.com
  11-27-18
  

  Facebook Censors Art Historian for Posting Nude Art, Then Boots Him from Platform

  Ruben Cordova used his social media profile as an archive of his research, but his photos of the Met Breuer’s Like Life exhibition triggered Facebook’s censors, who then permanently disabled his profile.

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• 9/30/18
  

  How the Federal Government Banned a Book (Mine) in NYC in 2018

  by David Pietrusza

  Is the story of the possible suicide of a president (in this case Teddy Roosevelt) off limits?