On March 27, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14253, “ Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History .” The order provided a template for egregious assaults by the White House on the humanities, arts, higher education generally, and particularly on history. Trump has declared war on history itself, on the freedom of historians to help Americans to learn from our past. For every American who cares about the power of historical understanding to face and potentially heal divisions,