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We call it Historical Archives & Records... He calls it EVIDENCE

"Historians sue over Trump's attempt to ignore Presidential Records Act

The world's largest association of historians is suing the Trump administration over a recent effort to justify the president keeping his official records rather than turning them over to the National Archives."

https://abcnews.com/US/historians-sue-trumps-attempt-ignore-presidential-records-act/story?id=131810181

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The Weimar Republic Shaped the 20th Century. Can Today’s Leaders Avoid Its Fate? – The New York Times

Weimar Dispatch

A Failed State Shaped the 20th Century. Can Today’s Leaders Avoid Its Fate?

A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse is seen as a warning.

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By Clay Risen, Clay Risen reported from Weimar, Germany, and spoke to historians about the Weimar Republic’s continued relevance.

• Jan. 12, 2026

In the winter of 1919, the leaders of the newly founded German Republic, having overthrown Emperor Wilhelm II at the end of World War I, went looking for a city to hold a constitutional convention. The delegates quickly settled on the small city of Weimar, which was centrally located and boasted a theater large enough to hold them all.

The resulting document, approved on Aug. 11, 1919, became the republic’s guidebook for over a decade, until Adolf Hitler dissolved the Constitution in 1933. The city, in turn, gave its name to the era: the Weimar Republic.

Today that brief stretch of time between an emperor and a dictator is memorialized by the House of the Weimar Republic, which sits across a wide plaza from the stately theater where the constitutional delegates met.

This small museum has an outsize mission: to tell the full story of the Weimar era, and to remind people that its lessons remain relevant — not only in Germany, where the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or A.f.D., is on the rise, but in a growing number of suddenly fragile democracies.

“We never have trouble raising funds,” said Michael Dreyer, the museum’s president and a political scientist at the nearby University of Jena. “Whenever the A.f.D. comes into the news, politicians call wanting to know if we are turning into Weimar.”

Birgit Witt, who works for her family’s driving school in Weimar, said she always encourages visitors to stop by the museum “because it’s so important right now to understand why people voted for the Nazi Party and Hitler back then.”

Weimar is a political touchstone in political circles in the United States, too. Critics of the Trump administration frequently invoke its precedent as an example of democratic backsliding. “Welcome to Weimar 2.0,” read a headline on an article in Foreign Policy last year by the historian Robert D. Kaplan.

Conservatives, in turn, have also found a different reason to dredge up Weimar — they use the era to give historical weight to its warnings about left-wing violence: At a White House meeting in October, the far-right activist Jack Posobiec claimed that the antifa movement had its roots in the Weimar Republic.

Coincidentally, even as Weimar has re-emerged in political debates, historians’ understanding of how it fell apart — and what that collapse means today — has changed.

After World War II, German politicians and academics, looking to absolve everyone except the Nazis for the country’s descent into tyranny, denounced the republic as a failure from the start because of what they said was a fatally flawed Constitution. For many, “Weimar” became a byword for disaster. Nothing, historians at the time concluded, could have saved Germany from Nazism.

Now a different consensus is emerging. A new book, translated into English last year as “Fateful Hours,” argues that Weimar was not brought down by some original flaw, but the determination of anti-democratic elites to destroy it — and the failure of the liberal establishment to stop them.

“The Republic’s failure was not predetermined from the outset,” said the book’s author, Volker Ullrich. “There was no automatic path to ruin.”

Constitution…

Dr. Dreyer agreed, adding that the Weimar Constitution was robust and progressive. It promised universal suffrage and comprehensive health insurance. It included tools that should in theory have blocked an authoritarian takeover, including the power to ban extremist parties.

Critics single out the Constitution’s Article 48, which gave the president power to rule by emergency decree. But the article also gave the German Parliament the power to veto such a declaration.

“The Constitution certainly had flaws,” said Kathleen Canning, a historian at Rice University in Texas. “But it survived a lot of crises,” she said, including hyperinflation and coup attempts.

Weimar was especially challenged by the onset of the Great Depression in 1929. When voters blamed their struggles on the left-wing Social Democrats, the largest party, conservatives took advantage.

And yet, Dr. Ullrich said, even economic catastrophe was in itself not enough to bring down the republic, which survived almost four more years.

“Many astute contemporaries were convinced that Hitler’s rise to power had been halted and his movement was in an unstoppable decline,” he said. “His eventual rise to power on Jan. 30, 1933, was the result of a sinister power struggle behind the scenes.”

Anti-democratic forces on both the right and the far left refused to work with the Social Democrats, and instead pushed through austerity measures that undermined the country’s safety net.

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Artnet: Meet the Historians on a Mission to Document Every Object at the Smithsonian. “Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, which has recruited hundreds of volunteers to document every gallery, every object, and every wall label at the Smithsonian Institution’s museums as a safeguard against politically motivated erasure or censorship.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/06/artnet-meet-the-historians-on-a-mission-to-document-every-object-at-the-smithsonian/

#Historians Reveal Why #536AD Was Truly The #WorstYear
1. Fog swept across Europe, the Middle East and Asia
2. Caused by ash that was dispersed throughout the Northern Hemisphere by an Icelandic volcanic eruption
3. Eruption was large enough to change the patterns of the world’s climate
4. Plunged the world into an eerie darkness
5. Lasted for 18 months.
6. Obscured the sun during the day, causing crops to fail, and death tolls to rise
7. It was the actual Dark Age.
https://www.news18.com/viral/historians-reveal-why-536-ad-was-truly-the-worst-year-9013354.html

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#Premodern societies are rich with evidence showing various paradigms for mitigating, preventing, + managing population-level #publichealth. We remind #GPHW24, while celebrating + focusing on modern and global challenges, to remember the #historians of #publichealth for insight.

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#Premodern societies are rich with evidence showing various paradigms for mitigating, preventing, + managing population-level #publichealth. We remind #GPHW24, while celebrating + focusing on modern and global challenges, to remember the #historians of #publichealth for insight.

#Sbeïtla, l’antique #Sufetula
Les origines de Sbeïtla sont encore obscures et aucun texte, aucune inscription n’éclaire sa fondation. On peut seulement tirer parti de son nom, puisque #Sufetula est un diminutif de #Sufes, qui désigne une cité voisine, distante d’une trentaine de kilomètres au Nord-Ouestde la #tunisie

https://www.leaders.com.tn/article/35663-ammar-mahjoubi-sbeitla-l-antique-sufetula
#romaine #découverte #cité #histoire #Tacfarinas #berbères #musulame #Rome #roman #historians #discovery #city #history #war #berbers #muslim #Rome

The [14th} amendment’s authors, they argue, “hoped not only to prevent a resurgence of secessionism but also to protect future generations against insurrectionism.” It was intended “to bar anyone who has betrayed an oath to uphold the Constitution from becoming President of the United States.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/04/trump-ballot-disqualified-14th-amendment/ (gifted)

#Historians
#JillLepore
#DrewGilpinFaust
#SherilynnIfill
#DavidBlight

Does anyone else think it's silly the degree to which #historians of the #premodern past try to take whatever #modern historians are thinking about, and say, "We have something very similar, just earlier"?

Sure, the premodern past is the context for the deep roots of the present, but it is also the menagerie of alternatives. I think premodern history needs not only to give the longer trajectory of the present, but also relativize and denaturalize the seeming inevitability of what we inherited from our grandparents.

Does anyone else think it's silly the degree to which #historians of the #premodern past try to take whatever #modern historians are thinking about, and say, "We have something very similar, just earlier"?

Sure, the premodern past is the context for the deep roots of the present, but it is also the menagerie of alternatives. I think premodern history needs not only to give the longer trajectory of the present, but also relativize and denaturalize the seeming inevitability of what we inherited from our grandparents.

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AP app cuz Reuters too much biz
stream/broadcast-BBC NHKJapan CSPAN PCAM #WLVT > #WHYY @6Abc = copaganda #WFMZW weather channel from @69news is the best #weather for #LehighValley #DelawareValley want to add #Canada media to mix for #FirstNations coverage #News

(2/5)…mainstream #historians in the US and in the #WesternWorld in general, and of course by #Hollywood.

The #myth that two Japanese cities were nuked to force Tokyo to surrender, thus shortening the war and saving lives, was “made in USA”, but it was to be eagerly espoused in #Japan, whose post-war leaders, vassals of the US, found it extremely useful for a number of reasons, as #WarWilson has pointed out in his excellent article on #theBomb. First, the emperor and his ministers, who…(2/5)