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Clearly expected given all that is happening, but the #Smithsonian will soon no longer be able to host the #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary, and it is in need of (a) new home(s):

blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2

#BHL is a treasure and ensuring its preservation is of the greatest importance for #biodiversity research and #taxonomy.

As the news item indicates, this may also be an opportunity to imagine better ways to make these critical publications more accessible to the community.

BHL logo and text "A new future" on a green background
Biodiversity Heritage Library · A New Future for the Biodiversity Heritage LibraryThe Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. A global consortium of over 660 contributors, BHL has made more …

"A new executive order from the #Trump administration focuses on the Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture, seeking to take away displays they describe as “flawed” and “divisive.”"

"In this executive order, the white house is looking to change the museum so that it focuses on the positive aspects of American history and replace the current displays which they subjected guests to ‘ideological indoctrination’."

kktv.com/2025/04/04/giving-peo #BlackHistory #Smithsonian

KKTV · ‘Giving people a fairytale history’: Colorado College professor reacts to executive order focused on popular national museumBy Cameron Dean

Redefining the history of #Slavery in #America, the #DJT admin has put its anti-#DEI thumb on the scales.

Under new #ExecutiveOrder edict to reshape the #Smithsonian #Museum and the #NationalParks, curators of historic sites are ordered to rewrite history of #CivilWar, delete references to #HarrietTubman. Teaching visitors to historic sites about #UndergroundRailroad has been legislatively mandated since 1998, but recent #Drumpf era ommissions have been removing references to that, as well as #JohnBrown from #HarpersFerry and deleting mentions of #AfricanAmericans, the practice of slavery and any "divisive narratives" ...

wapo.st/4jdXL8m #GiftLink #SharedLink
#History

"On my way to the #exhibit that #Trump says revises #history and makes the country look inaccurately #racist, I saw a painting from 1946 called “Frightful New York,” in which the female painter, #HisakoHibi, expressed how jarring it felt to reach the big city after spending three years forcibly incarcerated in an #internmentcamp along with 120,000 other innocent #JapaneseAmericans under orders from a U.S. president. That painting was made 79 years ago, so don’t tell me that we’re rewriting #racism into history, it has always been there."
#smithsonian #censorship
web.archive.org/web/2025040601

The Washington Post · What exactly does Trump think is in the Smithsonian?By Monica Hesse