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The Trump administration's attacks on accurate history at Smithsonian museums have led some historians to practice "guerrilla teaching." (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Historians fight Trump policing the past

Chauncey DeVega

Trump is demanding his portrait from his first administration (seen above) be replaced with one to cover both terms. This continues his editing of the Smithsonian's displays on history including his own biography and major events like slavery. (Kevin Carter / Getty Images)

Trump's legacy war on a portrait

Demonstrators protest the Trump administration's executive actions aimed at the Smithsonian Institution march to the National Museum of African American History and Culture on May 3, 2025. (Craig Hudson For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's crime against American history

Chauncey DeVega

President Donald Trump visits the U.S. Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility on Aug. 21, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

MAGA knows DC takeover isn't about crime

Amanda Marcotte

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An exhibition on the Black Power movement at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Trump's Smithsonian war echoes the past

Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (Getty/Preston Keres)

Trump: Museums too focused on history

The latest casualty to political sanitization is the Smithsonian's Museum of American History. (RiverNorthPhotography / Getty Images)

Trump impeachments cut from Smithsonian

President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"Sickening" order censors Black history

Tatyana Tandanpolie

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Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (Getty/Preston Keres)

Vance tasked with purging Smithsonian

Griffin Eckstein

Sarah Lancashire in "Julia" (Photograph by Seacia Pavao/HBO)

How HBO Max recreated Child's kitchen

Ashlie D. Stevens

The Jazz Age

Amanda Marcotte

Wilmore's direct Cosby hit

Brendan Gauthier

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(Screenshot, Smithsonian National Zoo)

(Hyperallergic, via humanscribbles.blogspot.com)

BIG plans for LEGO museum

Kyle Chayka - Hyperallergic

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