Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a series of posts written by members of the AASLH Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Task Force. You can read the previous posts in the series: Small Museums and Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment by Joan Baldwin, Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment and the All-Volunteer History ..read more

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in a series of posts written by members of the AASLH Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Task Force. You can read the previous posts in the series: Small Museums and Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment by Joan Baldwin, Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment and the All-Volunteer History ..read more

Last week, following President Trump’s executive orders on gender ideology, references to transgender and queer people were removed from the websites of the National Park Service’s (NPS) Stonewall National Monument and other historic sites, replacing the widely used LGBTQ+ abbreviation with “LGB.” This revision deliberately distorts decades of historical scholarship and erases transgender and ..read more

By Bruce W. Dearstyne John Dichtl's recent open letter to AASH members reminds us that we may be headed into a crisis President Donald Trump has issued an Executive Order banning “radical anti-American ideologies” in the schools and establishing the “President’s Advisory 1776 Commission” to promote patriotic education and advise on the upcoming 250th ..read more

Your Content Goes Here By Jason L. Hanson, History Colorado O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red ..read more

By Bruce W. Dearstyne John Dichtl's recent open letter to AASH members reminds us that we may be headed into a crisis President Donald Trump has issued an Executive Order banning “radical anti-American ideologies” in the schools and establishing the “President’s Advisory 1776 Commission” to promote patriotic education and advise on the upcoming 250th ..read more

Editor’s Note: This is the third post in a series of posts written by members of the AASLH Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Task Force. You can read the previous posts in the series: Small Museums and Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment by Joan Baldwin, Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment and the All-Volunteer History ..read more

Over the past two weeks, I’ve heard from colleagues throughout the history community expressing their distress about impending challenges to the work they do. While we don’t yet know what the full impact of recent White House actions will be for our field, they have already created a sense of confusion and concern that ..read more

Editor's Note: This is the second post in a series of posts written by members of the AASLH Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Task Force. You can read the previous post in the series: Small Museums and Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment by Joan Baldwin By Anne W.  Ackerson  Volunteers are integral to the ..read more

By John Marks and Madeleine Rosenberg On Friday, January 24, 2025, AASLH published the latest installment of our “250 and Beyond” monthly member newsletter, exploring how the incoming Trump administration might shift the landscape of the 250th anniversary commemoration. Since that time, President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders directly related to commemoration ..read more