PERSPECTIVES: The Trump Administration Is Rewriting American History for Partisan Purposes

Eileen Boris, distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Kristin L. Ahlberg, U.S. federal historian from 2003-2024, writing in Academe Blog: “ThHistory, Archives, and Records Preservation Project, an initiative of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), has documented the overweening scope of this attack on American history by a presidential administration that substitutes its own ideology for scholarly method. The attack does not stop with relabeling and eliminating historical truths it deems less than ‘patriotic.’ This administration has set about disappearing the very building blocks of historical research and writing.” Read more here.

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