We published 10 articles about historians' work for, with, and on the National Park Service in #AHAPerspectives this summer. You can find them all here: 🗃️

Today, we wrap up our summer #AHAPerspectives miniseries on historians' work with the National Park Service! We're finishing with an article by @hngreen.bsky.social, who shares her experiences writing an NPS historic resource study and how politics today will constrain future such work. 🗃️

Gender studies scholars and experts on domestic violence have long known that gender-based bigotry is a gateway to violent extremism. It’s time for national security officials to catch up.

I am looking to find out the names of the women in this 1980 photo with Jimmy Carter. They helped contribute to the creation of women's history week. Can anyone help me identify these women? 🗃️

Also check out the mentioned @routledgehistory.bsky.social Routledge History of Queer America and Contested Curriculum: LGBTQ History Goes to School, out now from @rutgersupress.bsky.social

Check out my episode of the American Historical Review's podcast series, "State of the Field for Busy Teachers." I talk about how to make K-12 and undergrad survey history education LGBTQ-inclusive and some great places to start.

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

Gift link. #sschat #edusky

“When you start erasing or sanitizing our history so that it is not offensive, so that all the bad bits are taken out to make people feel comfortable, we lose the ability to think critically,” said Alan Spears, of the National Parks Conservation Association. 🗃️

“We’re in this full-fledged culture war where there’s this rapid movement to silence LGBTQ+ voices and an inclusive curriculum…” Don Romesburg notes the necessity of building real-life community and organizing intergenerational coalitions to push back. @donromesburg.bsky.social 🗃️ 🍎 #sschat 🏳️‍🌈

Out of the first five questions, four are about gender identity. There isn't even a pretense that they're looking for qualified educators. They're interviewing candidates for the bathroom police.

The Gay & Lesbian Review / Worldwide is on BlueSky! Follow us for more on the history, literature, and culture of the global LGBT community and visit glreview.org for access to our blog and archives or to subscribe.

OutHistory is beginning to compile a bibliography on the war on LGBTQ+ history, featuring government directives, media stories, and organizational responses. We welcome suggestions for additional items to include at [email protected]. outhistory.org/exhibits/sho...

Happy 105th Birthday to the 19th Amendment! Here's hoping it has many more!

2. A war over crosswalks is erupting in Florida. After statewide efforts to erase Pride crosswalks began this week, communities have resisted—repainting them, fighting attempts to strip them, and in some cases, restoring rainbow colors overnight. www.erininthemorning.com/p/orlando-ci...

Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Resisting the Rainbow Panic one crosswalk at a time. 🏳️‍🌈 🗃️ 🏳️‍⚧️ www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/08/24/d... www.historians.org/perspectives...

This week Historians At The Movies talks about trans rights, Australia, and the late, great Terence Stamp. Join us on Prime Video this Sunday, August 24 at 8pm eastern for THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT with guest host @phdrachel.bsky.social. Share #HATM with all of your friends

There was an interesting question I saw from someone recently that was asking why there are no historians writing "for the other side." Essentially, why are there no "pro-Trump Heather Cox Richardsons?" The answer lies in our training.

Bold to choose one of America’s top sandwich cities

Important. Clear, concise, imperative. Please watch.

The regime finds history objectionable. 🗃️ 🗺️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/a...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social I am America I am public education I am an informed citizenry I am a neighbor, a volunteer, a helper I am healthcare for all I am open arms for the poor, the unhoused, the immigrant I am love for all humans I am democracy— America.

An idea:

"Learning our history is a radical and righteous form of resistance, and any one of us can do it." Important historical framing of the current attacks on trans people and LGBTQ+ history by @manionjen.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1983... @oah.org 🗃️ 🍎 #sschat 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 #lgbtq #queerhistory

How is Donald Trump changing our sense of who we are as a nation? In this series from @newrepublic.com, former OAH Pres David W. Blight invited leading scholars to explore this urgent question. Edited by Blight, the collection includes his own contribution to the conversation. ow.ly/Ab3L50WIrjl

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

Might start the semester off with this video and a discussion of how authoritarians distort history and thus the crucial importance of understanding history as more than a set of facts but as a practice of historical thinking. History education is more important than ever. 🍎 🗃️ 🗺️ #sschat

Watch OAH President Annette Gordon-Reed on Democracy Now talking about Trump’s Targeting of School Curricula, Smithsonian 👉 ow.ly/8HjP50WHIUI

Our constitutions are not the same. We have been very proud of always holding elections, no matter what else was going on. I am so tired of Trump shitting on the United States of America.

Shout out to @resistancerangers.bsky.social who are working to resist the purge. www.historians.org/perspectives...

🎙️✨ We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling to bring you: Resistance Rangers On the Air 🙌 Our brand new podcast!

A new episode of Resistance Rangers on the Air just dropped! In Episode 2 of “Resistance Rangers on the Air” we dive into the background and consequences of SO 3431. Hear subject matter experts & off-duty rangers chat tactics and answer one of our favorite questions: what are we gonna do about it?

Parents, be vigilant against PragerU instructional materials in your kids classrooms! It’s an extremist outfit masquerading as an educational nonprofit. It’s a far right wing response to PBS kid’s programming, it is propaganda designed to appeal to children and careless or bigoted educators. Beware!

📢 The OAH has issued a Statement on the White House Review of the Smithsonian. Read the statement: ow.ly/hgLR50WGhfQ

This is great. Keep it up. Take photos of national park signs now, before they’re whitewashed

Check out this project to document and preserve existing National Park Service signs before they disappear under orders of the regime. Help gather information and spread the word. sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...

Kate Masur and Gregory P. Downs write about NPS in #AHAPerspectives: “Our work convinced us of the deep professionalism and curiosity of many NPS officials and of the enormous benefits of working closely with the NPS in the sometimes-painstaking process of changing official interpretations.” 🗃️

Catch OAH's former Pres David Blight on @msnbc.com discussing Trump's 'political war' on American history: ow.ly/8Pz550WCcQ4

To those of you who accomplished things today, I salute you. It can be hard to be productive in….such times. When you are, give yourself credit. It’s a form of resistance against the seeming hopelessness of the present. It means you haven’t given up. And we can’t.

And this section seems to me to contradict the other sections--if AI hallucinates, comes up with fake sources, and is ahistorical, why would we want to put any effort into incorporating it into our classes?

Thoughts?

We are not talking loud enough about how all these university settlements capitulating to the Trump regime are explicitly bigoted attempts to strip trans folks of their basic dignity and human rights. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍎 🗃️ www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Dismissing educators who criticize ChatGPT and other GenAI as simply "not understanding or embracing new technology" is getting tiresome. As are the suggestions that "you just have to make your assignments more fun and engaging." #sschat 🗃️

Today, President Trump signed a bill into law that will eliminate $1.1B of federal funding for public media. This devastating act tipped the threat against journalism in America into a crisis. Millions depend on the NPR Network. Now, we’re counting on you. Donate here: n.pr/458sOhq

New book alert: Teaching LGBTQ+ History in High School by Stacie Brensilver Berman and Robert Cohen #sschat 🍎 🗺️ 🗃️ #LGBTQHistory www.routledge.com/Teaching-LGB...

Teach what historical erasure looks like as it happens. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...

Check out Uncensored, the archive created by ex-NPS historians that documentes which stories have been censored by the administration www.resistancerangers.org/rangers-unce...