A letter to the Smithsonian member of an AASLH – AASLH
We present this letter as an example for AASLH members and others who want to send their messages to federal and government officials on behalf of history and museums. The Smithsonian Institute, Humanities, Museum Services Institute, National Park Service and other government agencies serving the public, the last executive decisions of the White House have been targeted. William Tramposch has been a member of the AASLH member of the AASLH Council in 1983-1987 and 1990-1994 and coordinates the seminar of historical management (now AASLH History Leadership) in the Colonial Williamsburg. Trampachch has a distinguished career from Williamsburg to the Nantucket History Association from New Zealand History Places.
1 April 2025
Ms. Porter Wilkinson, (Email reserved)
Consultant and Chief of Staff Smithsonian Regents Council
Dear Mrs. Wilkinson,
Throughout the study of the Trump administration Smithsonian organization, I express my deep concern about the latest arbitrary and bad-thought-out measures addressed by the Trump administration to the interpretation of the American history and culture.
First, I have been in the field of museums for 40 years organizing the vice seat of the International Council of Museums; AAM Accreditation Commission; Aaslh Council; and as director in museums as the colonial Williamsburg Foundation; New York Historical Union; and Oregon History Society. I also had two Fulbright scholarships in museums. I believed that I knew something I talked to.
Throughout my career, I have been working closely with Smithsonian colleagues and have a history and suffering of our history and culture that are always full of success and failure. No culture history has none of these features, and the current management is the fact that such terms of the current management are ‘appropriate’. Only whom do the appropriate date and the most important decisions? This management demonstrated the rejection of the rejection for this topic specialists, and again again with the interpretation of his country again.
Can I continue to fix themselves for the inevitable mindset of the ‘Revisionist’ thought that thinks the worst type of Smithsonian Regents? For this purpose, I can ask regents to a historian and museum leaders. And I can ask them to be asked that the best methods of museum and historical / culture are considering the best methods of application / culture that continue to apply the best methods of culture. Your current secretary is the best of the way; Please make sure of his success!
In the age of extreme cuts, the fragile balance, which has been made, the truth and so-called facts, I beg the fragile balance with no less or not the results of extraordinary. These are dangerous times, and all surveys show that the museums represent a strange source of information for Americans. Please do not destroy this balance.
“The best guarantee of the mistake is to inform our cause,” Jefferson said. Our history must be made in real and conscientious programs, which is well-known and highly recognized and highly recognized and well-known programs. Smithsonian museums provided a benchmark in all museums, our shores and elsewhere. Regents take a significant power to ensure that these high standards continue or simply decay before our eyes. Your own reason, for the sake of your country, ‘before reporting.
Sincere,
Dr. William Tramposch
Mendocino, ca
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