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The American Historical Association, the largest professional organization representing historians, is using members' dues to suppress those very members who opposed the genocide in Gaza and are now investigating their leadership council for leakers. Glad I haven't been a member of this authoritarian organization for years.
#AmericanHistoricalAssociation #history #historians #histodons
« #ThornRunPartners officially started representing and advising the #AHA leadership in February 2025, about two weeks after leaders vetoed the first membership resolution condemning scholasticide in #Gaza. »
Did the #AmericanHistoricalAssociation ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-scholarly-associations-secret-washington-playbook
https://archive.ph/85Hec
#Palestine #PalestineStudies #UShigherEd #USpol #academicFreedom
https://www.europesays.com/people/103438/ Historians vs. Donald Trump: The battle for control of presidential records as the US government yearns for the pre-Nixon years #AmericanHistoricalAssociation #AmericansOversight #BarackObama #court #DonaldTrump #injunction #nara #POTUS #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #PresidentialRecordsAct #RichardNixon
#Popok reports on a new emergency filing to stop Trump from continuing to destroy the #NationalArchive and his presidential papers, as the #AmericanHistoricalAssociation rushes back to Court after Trump declares , figuratively, that he can set the National Archive on fire
youtu.be/jnEsR9HNcAQ?...
Trump SMACKED with EMERGENCY F...
Reuters: Historians, watchdog group sue Trump to preserve White House records. “The American Historical Association and American Oversight on Monday asked the federal court in Washington to declare the nearly 50-year-old Presidential Records Act to be lawful and to bar federal agencies from relying on the Justice Department’s legal memo that deemed it illegal. The lawsuit also asked the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/08/reuters-historians-watchdog-group-sue-trump-to-preserve-white-house-records/
The American Historical Association has filed a lawsuit challenging a recent Department of Justice memorandum declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. The memo threatens transparency and record-keeping throughout the executive branch, including the National Archives.
This case is about whether the American people can access and learn from the records that document our nation’s history.
@histodons
#AmericanHistory
#PresidentialRecordsAct
#AmericanHistoricalAssociation
https://www.historians.org/news/aha-files-lawsuit-to-defend-the-presidential-records-act/
Judge Rejects Government’s Weak Attempt To Memory-Hole DOGE Deposition Videos
Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It
AHA’s Leaders Vetoed Its Members’ Condemnation of Scholasticide in Gaza — Again
American Historical Association members are undaunted by the veto: “We educate. We organize. We have to keep fighting.”
“In the US, we have a lot of discourse about the rights of gun owners, not the rights of people not to be shot” - Jennifer Tucker #AmericanHistoricalAssociation #AHA26
American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza http://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/aha_scholasticide_resolution_gaza #Gaza #genocide #Scholasticide #AmericanHistoricalAssociation
"The #AmericanHistoricalAssociation, the oldest learned society in the United States, has adopted the 'Resolution to Oppose #Scholasticide in #Gaza,' condemning #Israel’s 'intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system.' We speak to Sherene Seikaly and Barbara Weinstein, two scholars who supported the resolution and helped push for the groundbreaking vote."
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/6/aha_scholasticide_resolution_gaza
#CfP Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th-21st Century
📌 International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies |cooperation of #GHIWashington #UniTuebingen #AmericanHistoricalAssociation
📅 July 7-10, 2025 |GHI's Pacific Office in Berkeley, #California
Deadline: October 31, 2024
Doing the right thing: My professional organization the @AHAHistorians #AmericanHistoricalAssociation condemns #Florida for banning study of #LGBTQIA + #History