Roundup: Statements/Responses to Executive Order on “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”

Last Updated: April 1, 2025

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)

• Defending Our Full, Shared History at the Smithsonian and National Park Service

American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and Phi Beta Kappa

American Historical Association (AHA)

Artists at Risk Coalition (ARC)

• ARC Condemns Executive Order Undermining Smithsonian Institution’s Integrity

Association of Art Museum Directors

• Statement on Executive Order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”

Association of Research Libraries (ARL)

• President Trump Signs Executive Order on American History

Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)

• Congressional Black Caucus Statement on Trump’s Executive Order on the Smithsonian

Human Rights Campaign (HRC)

• Trump’s Latest Power Grab Threatens Free Expression and LGBTQ+ Voices in Smithsonian Institutions

Legal Defense Fund (LDF)

• LDF Sounds Alarm on Trump Administration’s Attempt to Reinvigorate Pseudo-Scientific Racism and Erase Black People from American History

NAACP

• NAACP Opposes Trump’s Recent Attempts to Whitewash American History

National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC)

• Executive Order Reduces Smithsonian Institutions and National Park Service to Platforms for Nationalist Propaganda

National Parks Conservation Association

• Parks Group Responds to Executive Order Targeting American History

US Congress 

• Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher Statement on President Trump’s Latest Executive Order To Erase, Rewrite, and Propagandize the History of the United States
• Rep. Meeks on Trump’s Executive Order attacking the Smithsonian African American Museum (Video)

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