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“Improper Ideology”—Trump Demands Women’s History Museum Remove Trans People or Lose Funding

Smithsonian Institution // Marelbu // Creative CommonsErin In The Morning is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber.“Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth,” reads President Donald Trump’s March 27 executive order.He t…

A Response to Trump’s Order to Restore ‘Truth’ to American History

By the authority vested in me as a citizen of the United States, protected by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, I hereby respond to the Executive Order of March 27, 2025 on Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.

Smithsonian’s African American museum director Kevin Young resigns

Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, has stepped down. He announced his departure in a memo to museum staff, said Smithsonian spokesperson Linda St. Thomas, three weeks after the Smithsonian…

Trump Targets a Slavery Removal from the National Museum of African-American History and Culture

By April Ryan “Black people are not going to stand for this,” says Nikole Hannah Jones, the author of the 1619 Project. She is responding to reports that President Trump is targeting the slavery section of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture. The museum’s slavery facts and substantiating artifacts of the 250 years of the enslavement of Africans in America, curated by historians, are the bull’s-eye for the Trump administra…

Save the Smithsonian and America’s priceless cultural legacy

We cannot let Trump turn this American treasure into one more arm of the right-wing propaganda machine.

LETTER: Reacting to Trump targeting the Smithsonian

Recently, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order targeting "improper ideology" at the Smithsonian. Many of us recognize this as more MAGA white-washing that ignores injustices of our past suffered by virtually anyone that wasn't white, male and wealthy.