censorship

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/22/2020
  

  The Latest Chapter in Mississippi’s Long History of Squelching Anti-Racist Activism

  by William Sturkey

  The silencing of journalists and academics has always been integral to the regime of white supremacy in Mississippi. Now that new challenges are emerging to that regime, attacks on academic freedom, including the firing of historian Garrett Felber, have resurfaced.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  11/18/2020
  

  Hong Kong's New Rules have Created Confusion in the Classroom. Some Parents are Pulling their Children Out

  While pro-Beijing lawmakers stress the need to promote national unity through civics education, educators, historians and parents in Hong Kong expect censorship and indoctrination under new restrictions. 

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• SOURCE: Rest of World
  10/26/2020
  

  Control, Alter, Delete:Hong Kong Activists and Academics are Hurrying to Digitize Historical Records

  Museums dedicated to the struggle for civil liberties in Hong Kong face a crisis to preserve records in the face of new public safety laws aimed at curbing criticism of the People's Republic of China. 

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  9/6/2020
  

  Call Trump’s Attacks On The 1619 Project What They Are — Censorship of American History

  The 1619 Project has been published for a year. Why, now, is Donald Trump making a political issue over its use in schools? The author says it's not about teaching history but shaping national propaganda.

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• 8/16/2020
  

  Who Shaped the Story of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

  by William Johnston

  Most Americans' knowledge of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflects how American leaders in 1945 wanted the atomic bombings remembered more than their real history. 

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• SOURCE: Network of Concerned Historians
  8/13/2020
  

  Network of Concerned Historians Releases 2020 Annual Report on Global Incidents of Repression of Historians

  The Network of Concerned Historians releases a comprehensive report of global incidents of censorship, government suppression, archival restriction, or private harassment campaigns against historians for the past year. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  7/24/2020
  

  A Magazine Story Opened Eyes to Hiroshima’s Horror. White House Allies Plotted to Shut Them Again.

  by Greg Mitchell

  The Hersey article, with its unflinching account of what survivors witnessed in Hiroshima, threatened the official narrative of justification.

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• 6/14/2020
  

  John F. Kennedy Did What Donald Trump Only Wishes He Could Do

  by Paul Matzko

  Rules to promote “fairness” or prevent “discrimination” can all too easily turn into tools for gaining partisan advantage at the expense of free speech, a free press, and a functioning democracy.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  5/13/2020
  

  Professor Apologizes for Using N-Word

  How should professors approach teaching situations where their subjects--artists or historical figures--have used racial slurs? 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/17/2020
  

  When “Fake News” Was Banned: An America Trump Might Have Loved

  by Adam Hochschild

  Exactly 100 years ago, this country’s media was laboring under the kind of official censorship that would undoubtedly thrill both Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo.

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• SOURCE: New York Times Book Review
  3/17/2020
  

  A Stirring Family Saga Tells a Taboo History of Vietnam

  by Gaiutra Bahadur

  Americans may not know that literature has been doing history’s job with brutal episodes in Vietnam’s past. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/16/2020
  

  How the Coronavirus Could Trigger a Backslide on Freedom Around the World

  by Allie Funk and Isabel Linzer

  Authorities worldwide are using the coronavirus as a pretext to crack down on human rights for political purposes. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/31/20
  

  It wasn’t just the National Archives. The Library of Congress also balked at a Women’s March photo.

  The library’s decision is the second-known instance of a federal government institution acting to prevent images it determined to be critical of Trump from being shown to the public. 

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• SOURCE: ArtNet
  1/24/20
  

  How the National Archives’ Notorious Alteration of a Women’s March Photo Is Part of a Long American Tradition

  by Jennifer Tucker & Peter Rutland

  Two professors explain how the image fits into the history of a country that has long sought to avoid discomfort.

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• SOURCE: ArtNet
  1/24/20
  

  How the National Archives’ Notorious Alteration of a Women’s March Photo Is Part of a Long American Tradition

  by Jennifer Tucker & Peter Rutland

  Two professors explain how the image fits into the history of a country that has long sought to avoid discomfort.

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• SOURCE: AHA
  1/19/20
  

  AHA Sends Letter to NARA Archivist about Altered Women's March Photo

  The AHA sent the following letter to the Archivist of the United States objecting to the alteration of a photograph on exhibition and praising NARA staff for acknowledging this serious lapse in judgement.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  1/20/20
  

  The National Archives' dangerous corruption of history

  by David Perry

  While the National Archives issued an apology and vowed to undergo "a thorough review" of its policies after the Washington Post first reported on the alteration, having discovered it by chance, as a historian I worry about how many other altered documents the Trump administration has buried in our records. Will we ever know?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/18/20
  

  National Archives says it was wrong to alter images

  “This photo is not an archival record held by the @usnatarchives, but one we licensed to use as a promotional graphic,” it said in another tweet. “Nonetheless, we were wrong to alter the image.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/17/20
  

  National Archives exhibit blurs images critical of President Trump

  A placard that proclaims “God Hates Trump” has “Trump” blotted out so that it reads “God Hates.” A sign that reads “Trump & GOP — Hands Off Women” has the word Trump blurred out.

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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.