Not being funny, that’s why you would never be one. Have you ever seen the guards at the tomb of the unknown soldier memorial? Those guards are just as disciplined or more
One of the coolest assignments I had when I worked in DC was to be my agency’s designated liaison with the National Archives to ensure that the Congressional correspondence we received was properly preserved and then transferred to them.
The San Bruno Federal Records Center of the National Archives houses all the immigration records of Angel Island Immigration Station (the Ellis Island of the West). We found a 175-page case file on my paternal grandmother when she was detained there in 1920 and 1926.
As history major in the early '70s, I really made a strong attempt to join the ranks of the National Archives. One of their main storage facilities is right here in Kansas City, Missouri. We have lime stone, climate controlled caves with tons of documents. My lowly BA, wasn't enough to get my foot in the door. One of life's disappointments.
Thank you so much for this. Sure brings back memories. My Dad worked there in the 50s and early 60s. He was a photographer for the Archives. Then he got transferred to the Eisenhower Presidential Library. Got to see a lot of history. Also got to see President Eisenhower, President Nixon, and President Johnson in Abilene, Kansas. Thanks Dad, RIP.
i just went through my mothers closet with her the other day her keeping all kind of stuff from our childhood arguing over every piece if we really need to keep that and for whom. i figure historians go through that every day :-).
I became emotional with this story. Just imagine, all Americans, these old, faded, worn documents, called The Bill Of Rights and The Constitution of the United States Of America, have kept, bound and held our country together for almost 250 years. We are not, always, a perfect union, but we are the greatest country on this planet. This is why immigrants, from other nations, risk their lives to be an American citizen. These are living, breathing documents that will always be for as long as we are The United States of America. May God Bless Us All.
@@NB-li5ty What's going on "now?" Before you answer, research both US domestic immigration law and international law regarding "immigration." You ever wonder why the US has not changed immigration law....research it. You'll awaken thyself.
I can't help but wonder if it's possible that we citizens can volunteer to help change these documents. It would be a very patriotic service to our country and a gift to our future citizens of our great nation.
@@fobbitguy *facepalm* Dude that's one of the most factually incorrect things I've ever read and you couldn't be farther from the truth if you tried. Most of his co-conspirators are already in prison or have already BEEN in prison for the crimes related to his convictions. Are you unaware of this? If so, I genuinely feel bad that you're going through life so clueless because this has been major news for years. Numerous of his co-conspirators were convicted and imprisoned going all the way back to when he was still serving as president. So, uhhhh yeah people are sent to prison for FRAUD all the time. I don't know where you're getting your information from but you might want to broaden your horizons a bit so you won't look so stupid in the future.
Way too many of our records are classified and I do mean "our" records. More needs to be done to ensure that records are available to the public in a timely manner.
I wonder that, if the USA decided to sell all of these artifacts to responsible caretakers or collectors, they would have enough money to pay the national debt.
And yet the archives have nothing about my maternal grandfather, neither did a certain department in St. Louis. It's as though he never existed. I have 2 pieces of paper that show proof he was actively serving in 1952, and listed as Chief, for the US Taney. I have many questions that I fear may never be answered. And he's not listed as ever being a crew member.
I wonder if generative AI can start filling lots of those backlogged requests. Will probably take a while for it to be accurate, but with government funding it’s very easily possible
How much is available to the public? In Israel less than 1 )one percent is open to th public. This is what dictatorship is about under the cover of democracy
Interesting how all these documents are preserved. But none of the treaties between the US Government and the Native American people. And for the "record" not 1 of these treaties were fully honored. Yet, ironically, had it not been for the codetalkers WWII would have lasted longer and or won.
It is a real shame to discover that NARA, instead of developing a world class website for people to access these documents have instead given exclusive rights to entire types of documents to private companies like, but not limited to Ancestry who in turn charge an arm and leg to view them. I suspect congress has not adequately funded them opting instead to send our tax dollars overseas.
This weapon that he uses on me and my community and my nation and my government and foreign adversaries and allies can alter a document without stepping in the room
Good luck getting access to the information in those records; Almost as bad as JSTOR... Allowing Kansas City NPRC to burn to the ground was pure genius. (ask any farmer why they salt their hay in the barn, DOH!)
Cursive looks cool but it’s completely inefficient and makes reading much slower. Words need to be legible and easy to read. The only real benefit from cursive is teaching children patience, focus, control, and handwriting skills which can translate to other areas of life. Otherwise, cursive has little utility in the real world
@@Augfordpdoggie Biden returned the documents he had. Trump refused, was asked multiple times, was forced to return some and still has documents, big difference.
@@Augfordpdoggie The National Archives begged Trump for over a year to return the documents he stole. Both Biden and Pence *voluntarily* realized and found on their own accord that they had some extra documents, and immediately contacted the archives to ensure that the papers were promptly returned. Which is why Biden and Pence weren't charged for stealing documents like Trump was: because there's a difference between purposefully lying to the National Archives for a year and refusing to follow the law and return papers like Trump did, versus realizing you accidentally had some and then voluntarily letting the archives (who wasn't even asking for any documents) know that you had them. It's the difference between somebody stealing a plasma television in the middle of the night and then covering up for over a year the fact that they broke in to steal the TV, versus someone accidentally walking out of the store with a screwdriver in their pocket and then coming back in voluntarily the next day to return it. Nice try.
Hold Trump accountable for his obstruction. Freedom of speech is connected freedom of the press and/or the ability to petituon the government with our grounds. These are all critical for building and/or maintaining trust. Politicians must be held accountable. FOIA helps our Democracy stay informed. Digitization will be a game changer.
@@NB-li5ty what are your thoughts about bold faced lies??? Is it a narrative they are trying to defend or just simple, verifiable facts? There is a reasonable duty to step in when misinformation can lead to the harm of others.
I wonder what kind of security they have in place to protect the archives from destruction by invaders or criminals. I thought about this when ISIS destroyed many artifacts in Egypt, Iraq and Syria.
Someone in these comments actually revealed where one of the off site facilities is!! 😮 The security in DC should never be discussed with anyone who doesn't have the highest security clearance.
too bad they didn't ask her about this. From the Wall Street Journal and the Charlie Pierce. U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan and her top advisers at the National Archives and Records Administration, which operates a popular museum on the National Mall, have sought to de-emphasize negative parts of U.S. history. She has ordered the removal of prominent references to such landmark events as the government’s displacement of indigenous tribes and the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II from planned exhibits.
Visitors shouldn’t feel confronted, a senior official told employees, they should feel welcomed. Shogan and her senior advisers also have raised concerns that planned exhibits and educational displays expected to open next year might anger Republican lawmakers-who share control of the agency’s budget-or a potential Trump administration.
This is the latest major defeat in the battle against those whitewashing nuisances who seek to bury the unpleasant parts of our common history that we are only beginning now to acknowledge properly. It’s being fought through Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s magnificent efforts at reckoning with the crimes of the Indian boarding schools. It’s being fought at school board meetings and in middle school libraries. It’s being fought by teachers and librarians beset by roving cabals organized by wingnut welfare and occasionally led by people with exotic taste in sexytime. And the latter just scored a huge victory without lifting a finger.
Shogan’s senior aides ordered that a proposed image of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. be cut from a planned “Step Into History” photo booth in the Discovery Center. The booth will give visitors a chance to take photos of themselves superimposed alongside historic figures. The aides also ordered the removal of labor-union pioneer Dolores Huerta and Minnie Spotted-Wolf, the first Native American woman to join the Marine Corps, from the photo booth, according to current and former employees and agency documents.
The aides proposed using instead images of former President Richard Nixon greeting Elvis Presley and former President Ronald Reagan with baseball player Cal Ripken Jr.
After reviewing plans for an exhibit about the nation’s Westward expansion, Shogan asked one staffer, “Why is it so much about Indians?” according to current and former employees. Among the records Shogan ordered cut from the exhibit were several treaties signed by Native American tribes ceding their lands to the U.S. government, according to the employees and documents. For an exhibit about patents that had changed the world, Shogan directed that the patent for the contraceptive pill be replaced. Aides substituted the patent for television. During discussions about what to use instead of the birth-control pill, an aide to Shogan suggested a patent for the bump stock, a device that allows a semiautomatic weapon to operate as a machine gun, according to two former employees. Replacing Dr. King with Nixon and Reagan? Replacing The Pill as a world-changing patent with the preferred accessory of dozens of mass murderers? Who are these “senior aides” and when did they stop working for Newsmax?
Shogan and her top advisers told employees to remove Dorothea Lange’s photos of Japanese-American incarceration camps from a planned exhibit because the images were too negative and controversial, according to documents and current and former employees. Shogan’s aides also asked staff to eliminate references about the wartime incarceration from some educational materials, other current and former employees said. Ellis Brachman, a senior adviser to Shogan, complained to some employees that they were too woke, according to current and former employees.
Brachman has an interesting history. He had been a congressional aide and led various Beltway institutions before landing at the Archives. He also has been no stranger to controversies. From the Jerusalem Post:
Now, almost eight years later, Brachman is embroiled in another controversy involving both Trump and Holocaust remembrance. As the senior advisor to the archivist of the United States at the National Archives and Records Administration, Brachman was cited in a recent Wall Street Journal investigation of how the federal agency’s leadership has shrunk or nixed public exhibits on difficult historical topics. Brachman, according to the article, asked that at least three portions of the archive’s galleries tone down unsavory chapters of history. One of his reported requests: to quash an exhibit about the Holocaust.
Brachman also complained that some employees were, in the words of the article, “too woke.” The Journal also reported that in an exhibit on 1940s coal mining communities, Brachman pushed to identify Black sharecroppers who were recruited by coal companies as “Southern farmworkers.” He also reportedly asked to delete references to the environmental harms caused by coal mining.
But this surrender belongs entirely to Shogan, a Biden appointee whose tenure as head of the Archives has been the rough equivalent of having a hurricane crop up in a Norwegian fjord. She was the Archives point-person in the endless wrestling match with the former president* over the Pool Shed Papers down at Mar-a-Lago, and that fight almost denied her the job entirely. It took the Biden Administration two tries to get her confirmed. During her hearings, along with endless questioning regarding the Pool Shed Papers, Shogun found herself at odds with the inexcusable Senator Josh Hawley over an article she’d once written concerning anti-intellectualism in Republican politics. From ABC News:
"You wrote an article saying basically that Republican voters are stupid, that Republican presidents deliberately appeal to anti-intellectualism," [Hawley] said.
Yes, and your point is?
Yet Shogan stood by her writing. She also repeatedly vowed before the panel to be nonpartisan. Hawley was not convinced. He said Monday that he'll likely vote against Shogan again this time around. "What you want in this role is somebody who is just an archivist, who is just nonpartisan, wants to do the job. The archives has become hugely political," Hawley said. "That agency needs to be depoliticized, they just need to be able to do their job."
It is possible that Shogan has made this most recent decision out of some sort of historian’s PTSD. (Hawley has that effect on people.) But that doesn’t make this whitewashing any less embarrassing. And this anticipatory surrender to the reign of morons that threatens to follow behind at Trump restoration hurts us all. The children from the Indian boarding schools cry out from their unmarked graves, and any nation that would trade Dr. King for Richard Nixon has played false with its historical memory.
Biden volunteer to give the documents after it was found and investogation found no malicious intent. Trump TRY to sold those documents to arab royalty.
Actually ink and paper from two hundred + years can be better preserved then ink and paper from a hundred + year's ago, paper at first was made from papyrus, then rags, ink was lamp soot or oak nuts. Put as paper became wood plup and ink was manufactured with caustic chemicals. Documents didn't have a very long life, compared to older Documents.
The Archivist of the United States is a political appointee. The problem with this is that the person isn’t actually an archivist. I think the post should go to an archivist who has the education and training to do the job - someone who is respected in the field and is capable of making the kinds of connections necessary to increase the budget and hire archivists to carry out the mission of the Archives. Technology alone isn’t going to do it. Also, there’s no meat to this story. Remember when 60 Minutes did journalism?
Do they have the unofficial document when President Donald Trump finished his State of the Union address than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped the paper it was printed on in two?
One most likely hood that that ripped up document was kept for its own posterity ironically !!! It's part of history ! We just don't know what documents Trump had in his possession. And what could be missing ? And who viewed what he had..and was anything copied unknown to President Trump ? He should be held in obstruction of history archives improper handling !!!
I was able to find my great-great Grandfather's Civil War records. I'm thankful the National Archives keeps those kinds of things.
I had a close friend who worked for the National Archives and loved his job. Sadly he died not long after retiring. RIP, James.
Short retirement unfortunately , May that man rest in paradise
@@Chris.Official1998 Thank you!
It must take an amount of discipline I could never possess to be one of those guards. The sheer boredom would drive me crazy.
Are they even real? I don't think I noticed the slightest bit of movement lol. But seriously they're probably swapped out on a pretty frequent basis.
Not being funny, that’s why you would never be one. Have you ever seen the guards at the tomb of the unknown soldier memorial? Those guards are just as disciplined or more
@@historyrepeat402 Solders VOLUNTEER for such duty. Geez.
I used to be one, it's called bearings!!!
@cruisinguy6024 cause there that good an self disciplined!!!!! We honor that!
Super interesting. Now I want to visit!
Don't bring Trump? He's already under indictment for stealing what belongs to the archives.
There are 17 National Records Centers across the nation.
@@RaymondHng Road trip anyone?
This is my dream job. I majored in History with a Museum Studies minor and I hope to eventually work in the National Archives
Speak it into existence. You will work at the National Archives.
Good Luck with that
My sincere thanks for sharing it.
One of the coolest assignments I had when I worked in DC was to be my agency’s designated liaison with the National Archives to ensure that the Congressional correspondence we received was properly preserved and then transferred to them.
This is so interesting. I would love to see more of this.
The San Bruno Federal Records Center of the National Archives houses all the immigration records of Angel Island Immigration Station (the Ellis Island of the West). We found a 175-page case file on my paternal grandmother when she was detained there in 1920 and 1926.
We need to protect the Internet Archive
That's in San Francisco.
@@RaymondHng and I guarantee that is a problem.
As history major in the early '70s, I really made a strong attempt to join the ranks of the National Archives. One of their main storage facilities is right here in Kansas City, Missouri. We have lime stone, climate controlled caves with tons of documents. My lowly BA, wasn't enough to get my foot in the door. One of life's disappointments.
That's the Lee's Summit Federal Records Center at 200 Space Center Drive, Lee’s Summit, MO
Maybe you shouldn't have mentioned where another site of our archives is located.
Criminals are looking at these comments.
@@RaymondHngOy, don't do this again. Foreigners absolutely would want to know
that kind of info.
@@track1949 This is public information. The addresses of all the Federal Records Centers is listed on their website.
All Americans should visit if able, take your kids here vs Disney, they'll learn more.
There are 17 National Records Centers across the nation.
Boring lol
@@JygjjVdccOnly way it’s boring is if you can’t read
@@JygjjVdcc😂
I said the same thing
That hypocrite as document
Watching from thailand 🇹🇭
Thank you so much for this. Sure brings back memories. My Dad worked there in the 50s and early 60s. He was a photographer for the Archives. Then he got transferred to the Eisenhower Presidential Library. Got to see a lot of history. Also got to see President Eisenhower, President Nixon, and President Johnson in Abilene, Kansas. Thanks Dad, RIP.
If Nixon has been prosecuted then i didn't believe Trump would have become president.
But then there wasn't a guy named Putin around then.
Had Had Had Had
All people are created equal.
Love it. Good job!
An under appreciated and vital agency. Thank you for your work!
This is easy. They store them in Mar-A-lago's "secure" washrooms.
Or Hunter Bidens laptop
I could watch videos about the archives all the time. This is super interesting.
i just went through my mothers closet with her the other day her keeping all kind of stuff from our childhood arguing over every piece if we really need to keep that and for whom. i figure historians go through that every day :-).
So wonderful. Thank you.
This is great. Thank you. Good story.
Always enjoy hearing about my favorite founding father, John Hanecock.
Your so called founding father was certified hypocrite
The facts about Norah's grandmother were fleshed out more when she was on the Founding Your Roots show a couple of years ago.
Napoleon’s signature 😮
I became emotional with this story. Just imagine, all Americans, these old, faded, worn documents, called The Bill Of Rights and The Constitution of the United States Of America, have kept, bound and held our country together for almost 250 years. We are not, always, a perfect union, but we are the greatest country on this planet. This is why immigrants, from other nations, risk their lives to be an American citizen. These are living, breathing documents that will always be for as long as we are The United States of America. May God Bless Us All.
You should send this too Trump, who's under indictment for stealing archival material.
You left out a word….‘illegal” immigrants.
@@NB-li5ty What's wrong with you people?
@@johnbrattan9341 I’m all for immigrants coming in to the US “legally”. But not what is going on now.
@@NB-li5ty What's going on "now?" Before you answer, research both US domestic immigration law and international law regarding "immigration." You ever wonder why the US has not changed immigration law....research it. You'll awaken thyself.
Great story! Thanks
This is beautiful
4:08 Getting some Indiana Jones vibes
Dismissing stealing classified material is INSANE!
Awesome!
That’s mind-blowing
I can't help but wonder if it's possible that we citizens can volunteer to help change these documents. It would be a very patriotic service to our country and a gift to our future citizens of our great nation.
The GOP is trying mightily..
The amendment process is how you change the constitution.
8:32 Norah and I use the same pen! You can’t go wrong with a Sharpie S-Gel. 😊
Awesome.
They definitely can bring the archives closer to the current century. DC government do it right now. They have a agency that put everything digitized.
Put Trump's prison sentence for his 34 felony convictions on display.
Felonies which no one else would've been convicted of.
@@fobbitguy Because most people aren't the President.
@@fobbitguy *facepalm* Dude that's one of the most factually incorrect things I've ever read and you couldn't be farther from the truth if you tried. Most of his co-conspirators are already in prison or have already BEEN in prison for the crimes related to his convictions. Are you unaware of this? If so, I genuinely feel bad that you're going through life so clueless because this has been major news for years. Numerous of his co-conspirators were convicted and imprisoned going all the way back to when he was still serving as president.
So, uhhhh yeah people are sent to prison for FRAUD all the time. I don't know where you're getting your information from but you might want to broaden your horizons a bit so you won't look so stupid in the future.
TDS
Good morning 🌞
Way too many of our records are classified and I do mean "our" records. More needs to be done to ensure that records are available to the public in a timely manner.
Colleen Shogen (sp?) looks like she could be Alanis Morissette's older sister.
Shogan.
Or her dirty aunt Libby who only comes around when she needs a sitter for her cat.👀
Interesting timing and focus this close to the election.
Even when the President does not.
Biden, very true.
Let 1000 college students help sort it a week at a time different schools come in
Your gonna trust college students with the history of your country? I wouldn't.
Did that medieval check bounce? Lol
Medieval? Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867.
@@zachm2331 I used medieval to imply that checks are old af. Checks have been around that long? Why do we still use them?
Without the archives, we wouldn't have a country.
This is a dream of mine to go there… I’d LOVE to be able to go there and do genealogy research… I might find the answers to who my family was…
I would have loved to have worked there.
Honestly I’d have a good time working there learning stuff
I wonder that, if the USA decided to sell all of these artifacts to responsible caretakers or collectors, they would have enough money to pay the national debt.
2:11 This is also due to the fact that at one point in time it was stolen by Ben Gates.
4 cents an acer for the Louisiana purchase! Wow! 😮😮
Manhattan was bought for $24.
I wonder why they just digitize all the documents.
nicholas cage somewhere taking notes
Did you happen to run across the 1890 census?
The irony of trumpers storming these steps but not knowing the history…
And yet the archives have nothing about my maternal grandfather, neither did a certain department in St. Louis. It's as though he never existed.
I have 2 pieces of paper that show proof he was actively serving in 1952, and listed as Chief, for the US Taney. I have many questions that I fear may never be answered.
And he's not listed as ever being a crew member.
I wonder if generative AI can start filling lots of those backlogged requests. Will probably take a while for it to be accurate, but with government funding it’s very easily possible
How much is available to the public? In Israel less than 1 )one percent is open to th public. This is what dictatorship is about under the cover of democracy
America number 1
Yes!! Wonderful.
Interesting how all these documents are preserved. But none of the treaties between the US Government and the Native American people. And for the "record" not 1 of these treaties were fully honored. Yet, ironically, had it not been for the codetalkers WWII would have lasted longer and or won.
The Native American treaties DID survive, and they ARE at the National Archives--even though they weren't honored.
All I could keep saying is Woooow. Oooh! Ahhhhh! That's soooo cool! 😳😌🤩
I am not talking about the Presidents of this decade acting out. 🤦🤯
It is a real shame to discover that NARA, instead of developing a world class website for people to access these documents have instead given exclusive rights to entire types of documents to private companies like, but not limited to Ancestry who in turn charge an arm and leg to view them. I suspect congress has not adequately funded them opting instead to send our tax dollars overseas.
This weapon that he uses on me and my community and my nation and my government and foreign adversaries and allies can alter a document without stepping in the room
0:29 After a few MONTHS? Why were they there for that long??? 🤔
Good luck getting access to the information in those records; Almost as bad as JSTOR... Allowing Kansas City NPRC to burn to the ground was pure genius.
(ask any farmer why they salt their hay in the barn, DOH!)
Im disappointed that we stopped using cursive handwriting. My kids dont even understand what a signature is.
Pretty soon we won’t even write. Type type type
Cursive looks cool but it’s completely inefficient and makes reading much slower. Words need to be legible and easy to read. The only real benefit from cursive is teaching children patience, focus, control, and handwriting skills which can translate to other areas of life. Otherwise, cursive has little utility in the real world
why don't you teach them
I love how they are touching everything with bare hands. A bunch of amateurs.
get this stuff into a resort bathroom where its safe
Hold documents they dont want you to know about.
Right, keep the evidence instead of destroying it. Makes sense.
All except those hidden under Trump's bed at Mar-a-Lago.
and Bidens garage
@@Augfordpdoggie Biden returned the documents he had. Trump refused, was asked multiple times, was forced to return some and still has documents, big difference.
@@AugfordpdoggieBiden returned everything. Trump will eventually be held accountable for trying to keep them.
@@Augfordpdoggie hardly worth the effort...he was Vice President and Senator.
@@Augfordpdoggie The National Archives begged Trump for over a year to return the documents he stole. Both Biden and Pence *voluntarily* realized and found on their own accord that they had some extra documents, and immediately contacted the archives to ensure that the papers were promptly returned. Which is why Biden and Pence weren't charged for stealing documents like Trump was: because there's a difference between purposefully lying to the National Archives for a year and refusing to follow the law and return papers like Trump did, versus realizing you accidentally had some and then voluntarily letting the archives (who wasn't even asking for any documents) know that you had them.
It's the difference between somebody stealing a plasma television in the middle of the night and then covering up for over a year the fact that they broke in to steal the TV, versus someone accidentally walking out of the store with a screwdriver in their pocket and then coming back in voluntarily the next day to return it. Nice try.
Safeguarding the world's past at this point too. There are few more important places on Earth
Hold Trump accountable for his obstruction. Freedom of speech is connected freedom of the press and/or the ability to petituon the government with our grounds. These are all critical for building and/or maintaining trust.
Politicians must be held accountable. FOIA helps our Democracy stay informed. Digitization will be a game changer.
Freedom of speech …Freedom of press. Let’s hold you tube accountable not taking down posts or stories that go against their narrative!
@@NB-li5ty what are your thoughts about bold faced lies??? Is it a narrative they are trying to defend or just simple, verifiable facts? There is a reasonable duty to step in when misinformation can lead to the harm of others.
I wonder what kind of security they have in place to protect the archives from destruction by invaders or criminals. I thought about this when ISIS destroyed many artifacts in Egypt, Iraq and Syria.
Someone in these comments actually revealed where one of the off site facilities is!! 😮
The security in DC should never be discussed with anyone who doesn't have the highest security clearance.
too bad they didn't ask her about this. From the Wall Street Journal and the Charlie Pierce.
U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan and her top advisers at the National Archives and Records Administration, which operates a popular museum on the National Mall, have sought to de-emphasize negative parts of U.S. history. She has ordered the removal of prominent references to such landmark events as the government’s displacement of indigenous tribes and the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II from planned exhibits.
Visitors shouldn’t feel confronted, a senior official told employees, they should feel welcomed. Shogan and her senior advisers also have raised concerns that planned exhibits and educational displays expected to open next year might anger Republican lawmakers-who share control of the agency’s budget-or a potential Trump administration.
This is the latest major defeat in the battle against those whitewashing nuisances who seek to bury the unpleasant parts of our common history that we are only beginning now to acknowledge properly. It’s being fought through Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s magnificent efforts at reckoning with the crimes of the Indian boarding schools. It’s being fought at school board meetings and in middle school libraries. It’s being fought by teachers and librarians beset by roving cabals organized by wingnut welfare and occasionally led by people with exotic taste in sexytime. And the latter just scored a huge victory without lifting a finger.
Shogan’s senior aides ordered that a proposed image of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. be cut from a planned “Step Into History” photo booth in the Discovery Center. The booth will give visitors a chance to take photos of themselves superimposed alongside historic figures. The aides also ordered the removal of labor-union pioneer Dolores Huerta and Minnie Spotted-Wolf, the first Native American woman to join the Marine Corps, from the photo booth, according to current and former employees and agency documents.
The aides proposed using instead images of former President Richard Nixon greeting Elvis Presley and former President Ronald Reagan with baseball player Cal Ripken Jr.
After reviewing plans for an exhibit about the nation’s Westward expansion, Shogan asked one staffer, “Why is it so much about Indians?” according to current and former employees. Among the records Shogan ordered cut from the exhibit were several treaties signed by Native American tribes ceding their lands to the U.S. government, according to the employees and documents.
For an exhibit about patents that had changed the world, Shogan directed that the patent for the contraceptive pill be replaced. Aides substituted the patent for television. During discussions about what to use instead of the birth-control pill, an aide to Shogan suggested a patent for the bump stock, a device that allows a semiautomatic weapon to operate as a machine gun, according to two former employees.
Replacing Dr. King with Nixon and Reagan? Replacing The Pill as a world-changing patent with the preferred accessory of dozens of mass murderers? Who are these “senior aides” and when did they stop working for Newsmax?
Shogan and her top advisers told employees to remove Dorothea Lange’s photos of Japanese-American incarceration camps from a planned exhibit because the images were too negative and controversial, according to documents and current and former employees. Shogan’s aides also asked staff to eliminate references about the wartime incarceration from some educational materials, other current and former employees said. Ellis Brachman, a senior adviser to Shogan, complained to some employees that they were too woke, according to current and former employees.
Brachman has an interesting history. He had been a congressional aide and led various Beltway institutions before landing at the Archives. He also has been no stranger to controversies. From the Jerusalem Post:
Now, almost eight years later, Brachman is embroiled in another controversy involving both Trump and Holocaust remembrance. As the senior advisor to the archivist of the United States at the National Archives and Records Administration, Brachman was cited in a recent Wall Street Journal investigation of how the federal agency’s leadership has shrunk or nixed public exhibits on difficult historical topics. Brachman, according to the article, asked that at least three portions of the archive’s galleries tone down unsavory chapters of history. One of his reported requests: to quash an exhibit about the Holocaust.
Brachman also complained that some employees were, in the words of the article, “too woke.” The Journal also reported that in an exhibit on 1940s coal mining communities, Brachman pushed to identify Black sharecroppers who were recruited by coal companies as “Southern farmworkers.” He also reportedly asked to delete references to the environmental harms caused by coal mining.
But this surrender belongs entirely to Shogan, a Biden appointee whose tenure as head of the Archives has been the rough equivalent of having a hurricane crop up in a Norwegian fjord. She was the Archives point-person in the endless wrestling match with the former president* over the Pool Shed Papers down at Mar-a-Lago, and that fight almost denied her the job entirely. It took the Biden Administration two tries to get her confirmed. During her hearings, along with endless questioning regarding the Pool Shed Papers, Shogun found herself at odds with the inexcusable Senator Josh Hawley over an article she’d once written concerning anti-intellectualism in Republican politics. From ABC News:
"You wrote an article saying basically that Republican voters are stupid, that Republican presidents deliberately appeal to anti-intellectualism," [Hawley] said.
Yes, and your point is?
Yet Shogan stood by her writing. She also repeatedly vowed before the panel to be nonpartisan. Hawley was not convinced. He said Monday that he'll likely vote against Shogan again this time around. "What you want in this role is somebody who is just an archivist, who is just nonpartisan, wants to do the job. The archives has become hugely political," Hawley said. "That agency needs to be depoliticized, they just need to be able to do their job."
It is possible that Shogan has made this most recent decision out of some sort of historian’s PTSD. (Hawley has that effect on people.) But that doesn’t make this whitewashing any less embarrassing. And this anticipatory surrender to the reign of morons that threatens to follow behind at Trump restoration hurts us all. The children from the Indian boarding schools cry out from their unmarked graves, and any nation that would trade Dr. King for Richard Nixon has played false with its historical memory.
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I thought the documents Biden kept were from his time as a VP, so shouldn't it be Biden and THEN Trump?
Biden volunteer to give the documents after it was found and investogation found no malicious intent. Trump TRY to sold those documents to arab royalty.
Biden wasn’t charged because they literally said he’s not fit to stand trial. But he’s fit to serve as president. How bout that 😂
39 signatures and we need how much to alter the Constitution 1/3 of 432
Nice
50 years later and we still lie about Nixon.
Who is lying about Nixon?
@@track1949 he never sought to destroy the tapes. It's completely false.
Vice president Biden? ( right in the intro).
He'll take it to the grave if you let him
Oh my God feed it through AI Google photos
so what is insanity like exactly?
This woman literally just asked why a piece of paper 248 years old was "so faded" i cant xD
Actually ink and paper from two hundred + years can be better preserved then ink and paper from a hundred + year's ago, paper at first was made from papyrus, then rags, ink was lamp soot or oak nuts. Put as paper became wood plup and ink was manufactured with caustic chemicals. Documents didn't have a very long life, compared to older Documents.
There's nothing wrong with the question.
Did you know your Social Security Adminustraton has been keeping so many records on you, yet the information isn't available for you to examiine
The Archivist of the United States is a political appointee. The problem with this is that the person isn’t actually an archivist. I think the post should go to an archivist who has the education and training to do the job - someone who is respected in the field and is capable of making the kinds of connections necessary to increase the budget and hire archivists to carry out the mission of the Archives. Technology alone isn’t going to do it. Also, there’s no meat to this story. Remember when 60 Minutes did journalism?
If you visit, please look for Natives and Mexican families linching by US Army and Texas's Rangers
Do they have the unofficial document when President Donald Trump finished his State of the Union address than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped the paper it was printed on in two?
Yes they probably do.
Pelosi was making a point. Too bad that you don't get what it was.
One most likely hood that that ripped up document was kept for its own posterity ironically !!! It's part of history ! We just don't know what documents Trump had in his possession. And what could be missing ? And who viewed what he had..and was anything copied unknown to President Trump ? He should be held in obstruction of history archives improper handling !!!
Ewww - he’s touching these documents with his bare hands! That’s very bad for them! I’m astonished!!
Google it, it’s not as bad as you once thought
Yeah...wow!
Dream job
How crazy they don't know you yet they tons of paperwork ?
January 6th 2021 coup events will make these documents disappear
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You guys gotta watch Warehouse 13
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U bought alaska from Russia?😮
Yup. Google Seward's Folly.
Letting people take pictures with their phones seems absolutely nuts.
Was that guy just touching Eva Braun's diary with his bare hands?! I am no archivist but I don't think he should have been allowed that access.