One of the big reasons why the short-term tariff agreement with China may fall apart is America's actions to pull visas for Chinese students. China is livid (gift link).

“Past chairs of the Historical Advisory Committee (HAC) [on US Foreign Policy] speculated the entity was discontinued in an effort to skew U.S. history for partisan purposes.”
History matters.
#historymatters

Trump fires historians who wrote nonpartisan accounts of US foreign policy
thehill.com/homenews/adm...

I’m in the middle of doing a YouTube series on how to “Think Like a Historian.” This week’s video discusses interpreting primary sources.

Just trying to spread the benefits of historical thinking!
youtu.be/QbNc3uc_uOY

"The public highly values libraries, 69 percent of U.S. adults age 16 or older felt their local libraries contributed to providing a safe place for people to spend time, and 58 percent felt they substantially contributed toward creating educational opportunities." www.infodocket.com/2025/04/10/u...

Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.

On Tuesday, the Texas Senate passed SB 37, which removes faculty oversight of the core curriculum, particularly humanities and social science courses (particularly History courses) AND strips university faculty senates of any real input in shared governance. www.texastribune.org/2025/04/10/t...

“We oppose reckless funding cuts and restrictions that imperil the research enterprise …. We condemn efforts to censor our scholarly and cultural institutions, to curtail freedom of the press, and to purge inquiry or ideas that challenge prevailing policies.” bit.ly/42uh7PX

Given the overwhelming response to my original post, I decided to provide the link today. Read, learn, & share. It's free, straightforward, accessible, & leaves no doubt about the meaning of Confederate monuments & why the latest EO resurrects Lost Cause ideology.
www.book2look.com/book/SO9q2ZB...

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning:

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

AHA exec director @jgrossman.bsky.social, @oah.org president @dblight.bsky.social, & OAH exec director Beth English co-authored an article, "Trump May Wish to Abolish the Past. We Historians Will Not" for @newrepublic.com on the executive order, “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” 🗃️

Interesting to see posts from Dem senators and congress people criticizing the actions of Trump and Musk as illegal and unconstitutional, and then to read the comments--angry, plaintive, even begging--from people asking what they plan to do about it other than write social media posts.

I appreciate a lot about @theatlantic.com but holy cow is the hyper focus on elite private colleges odd. The Big Story about higher ed I want to read is abt the staggering increase in tuition at public unis, gutting of regional comprehensives, and the collapse of state funding that made that happen.

Just a quick reminder that if you are teaching a course in American history properly, you are teaching the history of African Americans throughout the year. #BlackHistoryMonth #sschat #historyteacher

One of the areas neglected by Reconstruction historians is a careful examination of the strategy and tactics of white supremacist terrorist groups, especially in the 1870s.

“Black History Month existed long before presidents endorsed it, and it will continue, even if presidents do not,” said Martha Jones, a professor of history and a presidential scholar at Johns Hopkins University.

"Historians tend to regard translation as merely a technical skill. . . . Yet translating primary sources requires more than language comprehension," writes James Smith Allen. Read more in his contribution to the "What Is Scholarship Today?" feature in #AHAPerspectives 🗃️:

“… let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the LAW IS KING.”

- Thomas Paine, born #OTD in 1737.