censorship

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  9/19/19
  

  Trump administration says joint UNC, Duke Middle East Studies program portrays Islam too positively

  The Trump administration is pressuring the University of North Carolina and Duke University to revise their joint Middle East studies program or risk federal funding.

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• SOURCE: Muck Rock
  8/21/19
  

  CIA instructed its historians to omit “embarrassing” details from the record

  In a formerly SECRET “Dos and Don’ts” regulation for historical officers, Agency suggested “unflattering statements” be avoided.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/4/19
  

  In China, a Reuters Partner Blocks Articles on the Tiananmen Square Massacre

  China has made efforts to quash public mentions of the day when tanks and troops moved into the Beijing plaza and crushed student-led protests.

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• SOURCE: Deadline Detroit
  1/31/19
  

  Dearborn Mayor Fires Author Of Magazine Story About Henry Ford's Anti-Semitism

  Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly, already under fire for killing the current issue of the city-funded Dearborn Historian because it carried a report on Henry Ford’s anti-Semitism, has now fired the magazine’s editor.

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• 2/10/19
  

  Combatting Crimes against History

  by Antoon De Baets

  Those who died while exercising their right to history are testimony to the fact that the historian’s craft is vulnerable, that its integrity needs constant vigilance and protection, that the defence of its basic principles is a duty for all, always, and everywhere.

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• SOURCE: hyperallergic.com
  11-27-18
  

  Facebook Censors Art Historian for Posting Nude Art, Then Boots Him from Platform

  Ruben Cordova used his social media profile as an archive of his research, but his photos of the Met Breuer’s Like Life exhibition triggered Facebook’s censors, who then permanently disabled his profile.

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• 9/30/18
  

  How the Federal Government Banned a Book (Mine) in NYC in 2018

  by David Pietrusza

  Is the story of the possible suicide of a president (in this case Teddy Roosevelt) off limits?

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• SOURCE: Index on Censorship
  April 2018
  

  UK's Index on Censorship warns history is under threat worldwide

  In a special edition the non-profit looks at how governments and other powers across the globe are manipulating history for their own ends. Authors include Lucy Worsley and Margaret MacMillan.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-21-17
  

  Historian’s Latest Book on Mao Turns Acclaim in China to Censure

  “I wrote this book to expose lies and restore the truth,” Yang Jisheng writes in the book.

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  1-2-17
  

  Facebook 'censors' nude statue of sea god Neptune, the well-known Renaissance symbol of northern Italian city

  In a statement, Facebook told her: “The use of the image was not approved because it violates Facebook’s guide lines on advertising. It presents an image with content that is explicitly sexual and which shows to an excessive degree the body, concentrating unnecessarily on body parts..."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9-9-16
  

  Mark Zuckerberg accused of abusing power after Facebook deletes 'napalm girl' post

  Norway’s largest newspaper published a front-page letter to the Facebook CEO lambasting the company’s decision to censor a photograph of the Vietnam war

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• SOURCE: Network of Concerned Historians (NCH)
  4-13-16
  

  Report: Historians in 107 countries were subject to censorship or persecution in 2016

  by Antoon De Baets

  The report contains 123 pages of news about the domain where history and human rights intersect, especially involving the censorship of history and the persecution of historians, archivists, and archaeologists around the globe, as reported by various human rights organizations.

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• 10-11-15
  

  The New Censors: Facebook and Instagram

  by Brian Hoffman

  In the social media age, it is not necessarily morality that determines what we can see, it’s branding.

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• SOURCE: AHA
  3-10-15 (accessed)
  

  Historians are defending a publisher reprimanded by Japan's prime minister

  Textbook publisher McGraw-Hill was rebuked for refusing to drop a reference to comfort women in World War II. 

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• 12-29-14
  

  The Censoring of History and Politics Takes Us Back to the Dark Ages

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Those who ban, censor or pervert history destroy it.

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• 10-24-13
  

  The Banal Reality of Censoring Books in China

  by David Austin Walsh

  For a Western academic, publishing in China is a painful process of back-and-forth between editors and authors. Just like everywhere else.

• SOURCE: South China Morning Post
  7-20-13
  

  Book on Hong Kong history withdrawn after censorship from mainland China

  A translated work that apparently censored remarks on politics - such as Democratic Party founding chairman Martin Lee Chu-ming comparing the handover of Hongkongers to China to "surrendering Jews to Adolf Hitler's Germany" - will be recalled after its writer cried foul over the unapproved changes.The book's mainland-funded local publisher, Chung Hwa Book Company, agreed last night to withdraw the Chinese edition of A Concise History of Hong Kong from sale. It also apologised to the history professor who penned the work in English.Professor John Carroll, associate dean of the University of Hong Kong's arts faculty, earlier said he was "shocked and disappointed" about the changes....

• SOURCE: Salon
  3-19-13
  

  BBC gets heat for censoring Elvis Costello’s 1979 hit “Oliver’s Army”

  The BBC is fielding complaints for editing the 1979 Elvis Costello hit “Oliver’s Army” on a 6 Music radio broadcast last week. The Mail reports that BBC censored the “one more widow, one less white n****r” lyric, despite the fact that the song has generally played uncensored on the radio for more than thirty years.According to the Telegraph, one listener said, “‘Although it is not a nice phrase and I wouldn’t condone the use of the word these days, it is an anti-war song as far as I believe, arguing against British colonialism and the word would be appropriate for that song.”