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Smithsonian

Trump’s executive order on American history has little to do with history

John Fea   |  March 29, 2025

Donald Trump recently released a new executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” Let’s break it down. Trump writes: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States […]

The Author’s Corner with Lindsay Schakenbach Regele

Rachel Petroziello   |  January 3, 2024

Lindsay Schakenbach Regele is Graduate Studies Director and Associate Professor of History at Miami University. This interview is based on her new book, Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism (University of Chicago Press, […]

Smithsonian releases 590 reels of blues music

John Fea   |  August 21, 2023

Here is NPR:

How climate change is threatening the National Museum of American History

John Fea   |  November 27, 2021

Some of the strongest critics of climate change policy are also some of the people most concerned about how our kids learn American history. Here is Chrisopher Flavelle at The New York Times: Nearly two million irreplaceable artifacts that tell […]