Government Directives and Related Reports

President’s Advisory 1776 Commission, The 1776 Report, Jan. 2021, https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Presidents-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf

U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, “America 250: Years in the Making,” 2025, https://america250.org/

Heritage Foundation, “America’s 250^th Anniversary,” 2025, https://www.heritage.org/a250

Donald J. Trump, Executive Order 14190, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” 29 Jan. 2025, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/03/2025-02232/ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling

Donald J. Trump, Executive Order 14253, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” 27 Mar. 2025, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/03/2025-05838/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history

Doug Burgum, Department of the Interior SO 3431: “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” 20 May 2025, https://www.doi.gov/document-library/secretary-order/so-3431-restoring-truth-and-sanity-american-history

Lindsey Halligan, Vince Haley, and Russell Vought to Lonnie G. Bunchy III, “Letter to the Smithsonian: Internal Review of Smithsonian Exhibitions and Materials,” 12 Aug. 2025, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/08/letter-to-the-smithsonian-internal-review-of-smithsonian-exhibitions-and-materials/.

The White House, “President Trump Is Right about the Smithsonian,” 21 Aug. 2025, https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/08/president-trump-is-right-about-the-smithsonian/.

Media Stories and Organizational Responses

“American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians Statement on Executive Order ‘Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,’” 5 Feb. 2025, https://www.oah.org/advocacy-statement/oah-issues-statement-on-executive-order-ending-radical-indoctrination-in-k-12-schooling/

David W. Blight, Beth English, and James Grossman, “Trump May Wish to Abolish Past; We Historians Will Not,” New Republic, 6 Feb. 2025, https://newrepublic.com/article/191205/trump-abolish-past-historians-education

Caleb Smith, “Hundreds of LGBTQI+ Resources Censored by the Trump Administration,” Center for American Progress, 13 Feb. 2025, https://www.americanprogress.org/article/hundreds-of-lgbtqi-resources-censored-by-the-trump-administration/

Juliana Kim, “Park Service Erases ‘Transgender’ on Stonewall Website, Uses the Term ‘LGB’ Movement,” NPR, 14 Feb. 2025, https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g-s1-48923/stonewall-monument-transgender-park-service

Mady Castigan, "Thousands of Webpages Documenting LGBTQ+ History, Healthcare, and Safety Have Been Censored," Trans News Network, 17 Feb. 2025, https://transnews.network/p/not-just-stonewall-analysis-shows

Marc Stein and the OutHistory Advisory Board, “LGBTQ+ People Have Been Here Before: The Power of Our History,” OutHistory, 20 Feb. 2025, https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/herebefore/powerofourhistory

"Landmark LGBTQ Study Disappears from Natl Park Service Website," Washington Blade, 21 Feb. 2025, https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/02/21/landmark-lgbtq-study-disappears-nps-website/

“A Response to the National Park Service's Erasure of LGBTQ History,” OutHistory, Feb. 2025, https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/national-park-foundation-and-n/responsetonps

Wendy Rouse, “The Queer History of Women’s Suffrage: Scholarship and Censorship in 2025,” OutHistory, Feb. 2025, https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/suff

Lambda Legal, "LGBTQ+ and HIV Advocates File New Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s Orders Seeking to Erase Transgender People and Defund LGBTQ+ and HIV Services," Lambda Legal, 20 Feb. 2025, https://lambdalegal.org/newsroom/sf_us_20250220_lgbtq-hiv-advocates-file-lawsuit-challenging-trump-orders-to-erase-trans-people-defund-services/

National Parks Conservation Association, "Parks Group Condemns Erasure of LGBTQ+ History from Park Service Website," 4 Mar. 2025, https://www.npca.org/articles/7142-parks-group-condemns-erasure-of-lgbtq-history-from-park-service-website.

“American Historical Association and Organization of American Historians Joint Statement on Condemning Federal Censorship of American History,” 13 Mar. 2025, https://www.oah.org/advocacy-statement/oah-issues-statement-condemning-federal-censorship-of-american-history/

American Historical Association, “Historians Defend the Smithsonian,” 31 Mar. 2025, https://www.historians.org/news/historians-defend-the-smithsonian/

Organization of American Historians, “Statement on Executive Order ‘Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,’” 31 Mar. 2025, https://www.oah.org/2025/03/31/statement-on-executive-order-restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/

Eléonore Tournier, "Pride Month: The American Historian Gerard Koskovich Denounces the 'Digital Book-Burning' of the Trump Administration," L'Est Républicain (Besançon, France), 15 May 2025, https://www.estrepublicain.fr/politique/2025/05/15/mois-des-fiertes-l-historien-americain-gerard-koskovich-denonce-l-autodafe-numerique-de-l-administration-trump

Lambda Legal, "Lambda Legal Asks Court to Block Anti-Equity Threats to Critical LGBTQ, HIV, and Health Programs and Services," Lambda Legal, https://lambdalegal.org/newsroom/sfaf_us_20250522_ll-asks-court-to-block-anti-equity-threats-to-critical-programs-services/

“Trumping the Trumpians: OutHistory and American Oversight, 2025,” OutHistory, May 2025, https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/trumping

Lambda Legal, "Federal Court Blocks Trump Anti-Equity and Anti-Transgender Executive Orders Targeting LGBTQ and HIV-Serving Nonprofits," Lambda Legal, 9 June 2025, https://lambdalegal.org/newsroom/sfaf_us_20250609_federal-court-blocks-trump-anti-equity-and-anti-transgender-executive-orders-targeting-lgbtq-and-hiv-serving-nonprofits/

National Parks Conservation Association, “New Park Signs Undermine Rangers, Aim to Erase History,” 12 June 2025, https://www.npca.org/articles/9321-new-park-signs-undermine-rangers-aim-to-erase-history

Organization of American Historians, “Statement in Response to Secretary Order 3431 and Censorship of History in the National Park Service,” 18 June 2025, https://www.oah.org/advocacy-statement/statement-in-response-to-secretary-order-3431-and-censorship-of-history-in-the-national-park-service/

Christine Hauser, “Pentagon Strips Harvey Milk’s Name from Navy Vessel,” New York Times, 27 June 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/usns-harvey-milk-navy-ship-name-hegseth.html

Wendy Rouse, “Confronting the Rainbow Panic: Historical Erasure and Censorship of LGBTQ+ History in the 2020s,” Perspectives, 17 July 2025, https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/confronting-the-rainbow-panic/

Jen Manion, “Learning History Is Righteous Form of Resistance,” The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2025, https://newrepublic.com/article/198373/learning-history-righteous-form-resistance

Graham Smith, Michele Kelemen, Nick McMillan, and Alyson Hurt, “State Department Slahes Its Annual Report on Human Rights,” NPR, 12 Aug. 2025, https://www.npr.org/2025/08/12/nx-s1-5495621/state-department-human-rights-reports-slashed

Karen OCamb, "Trump: 'The Path Back to National Unity Is to Decisively Win the Culture Wars,'" LGBTQ+ Freedom Fighters, 15 Aug. 2025, https://karenocamb.substack.com/p/trump-the-path-back-to-national-unity

Aishvarya Kavi, “Florida Paints Over Rainbow Memorial for Victims of Pulse Nightclub Shooting,” New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/us/politics/orlando-pulse-shooting-rainbow-crosswalk-memorial.html

Lyanne Wang, "'It’s a Direct Attack on Our Identities and Communities,'” Slate, 3 Sept. 2025, https://slate.com/life/2025/09/lgbtq-history-school-curriculum-dei-trump-bans.html

Clio Patrio (Marc Stein), "Declaration of Independence from the War on History," HARPPing on History, 8 Sept. 2025, https://harpp.substack.com/p/declaration-of-independence-from

Jessica Priest, Jayme Lozano Carver, and Sneha Dey, “Texas Tech’s Limits on Gender Identity Discussion Deepen Fears of Politics Breaching Academic Freedom," The Texas Tribute, 26 Sept. 2025.

Susan H. Greenberg, "Texas Tech System Prohibits Academic Discussions on Trans Identity," Inside Higher Ed, 27 Sept. 2025, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/09/27/texas-tech-system-ends-class-discussions-trans-identity

Emma Whitford, "Texas Ban on Transgender Course Content Sows Chaos," Inside Higher Ed, 30 Sept. 2025, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/09/30/texas-ban-transgender-course-content-sows-chaos

Lily Kepner, “UT System Audits Gender in Courses as GOP Targets ‘LGBTQ ideology’: The Moves Come as Lawmakers Expand Regents’ Power over Curriculum and Free Speech Experts Warn of Political Interference in Classrooms,” Austin American-Statesman, 30 Sept. 2025.

S. Baum, “Texas Universities are Now Banning Professors from Even Acknowledging Trans People Exist,” Erin In the Morning Substack, 2 Oct. 2025, https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-universities-are-now-banning.

Lauren Gutterman, “I Teach LGBTQ+ History. The University of Texas may Soon Ban My Course,” Austin American-Statesman, 10 Oct. 2025, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/i-teach-lgbtq-history-the-university-of-texas-may-soon-ban-my-course-opinion/ar-AA1OdlYA.

Christopher Wiggins, "Trump Erased Trans & Queer History from Stonewall; Lawmakers Are Fighting to Get It Back," The Advocate, 17 Oct. 2025, https://www.advocate.com/news/stonewall-transgender-erasure-democrats-outraged

"Lawmakers Call For Restoration Of Materials Removed From Stonewall National Monument," National Parks Traveler, 18 Oct. 2025 https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/10/lawmakers-call-restoration-materials-removed-stonewall-national-monument 

Warren Blumenfeld, "A War Raging on LGBTQ History and Our Legacy of Social Change," Good Men Project, 18 Oct. 2025, https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/a-war-raging-on-lgbtq-history-and-our-legacy-of-social-change/#google_vignette.

"House Democrats Demand Reversal of National Park Service Edits Erasing LGBTQ+ and Marginalized Histories," Edge Media Network, 19 Oct. 2025, https://www.edgemedianetwork.com/Story/159358#.

LGBTQ+ History Assocoation, "The LGBTQ+ History Association Condemns Recent Instances of Attempted Censorship and Transphobia," 20 Oct. 2025, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GIoJZgls5mqD3CIDRdy2JDtlv3jDDOI9HaFeQQBD3Ss/edit?fbclid=IwY2xjawNonlxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFMczB2QUFNMzRxc2wybjhIAR5_KmWDpmvJHP-7LcGOwIJ31UBn3kUvQRmypN3WANo5nvgL_3vqTL8k9MH5_g_aem_bevIRJEILOXU8cHf-f_NBw&tab=t.0.

Heather Richards, "Lawmakers Demand NPS Reinstate Trans Stories Purged by Trump," E&E News by Politico, 20 Oct. 2025, https://www.eenews.net/articles/lawmakers-demand-nps-reinstate-trans-stories-purged-by-trump/.

Emma O'Neill-Dietel, "Queer Disability History Can't Be Neutral," AAPD Blog, 21 Oct. 2025, https://www.aapd.com/queer-disability-history/.

Chris Walker, "72 Dems Pen Letter Demanding Trump Admin Restore Trans History at Stonewall," Truthout, 22 Oct. 2025, https://truthout.org/articles/72-dems-pen-letter-demanding-trump-admin-restore-trans-history-at-stonewall/.