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2025
SAA affirms National Humanities Alliance’s (NHA) statement on threats to the National Endowment for the Humanities – April 2025
Internet Archive rushing to save web pages purged by Trump administration – April 2025
Oral History Association begins Federal Employees and Contractors Oral History Project – March 2025
Historians Defend the Smithsonian – March 2025
SAA offers resources for Federal Workers – March 2025
SAA Echoes and Amplifies Calls from Allied Organizations to Defend IMLS – March 2025
SAA Statement on Media Reports Concerning Records Destruction – March 2025
Derek Mosley Assumes SAA Presidency, Mario Ramirez to be VP for remaining 2024-2025 term – February 2025
SAA condemns widespread firing of archivists and cultural heritage workers – February 2025
SAA responds to AOTUS Removal, Urges Advocacy – February 2025
AOTUS, Dr. Colleen Shogan, dismissed by the Trump administration – February 7, 2025
Several individuals arrested in Washington, D.C. outside the National Archives building during a protest – January 2025
Archives of composer, Arnold Schoenberg, destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires, reports The BBC – January 2025
Archives of Chicano Studies historian, Juan Gómez-Quiñones, destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires, reports Axios – January 2025
LA Fires claim Theosophical Society building and archives – January 2025
2024
SAA Statement, Archives Must be Allowed to Operate without Political Interference – December 2024
The National Archives open portal for civil rights cold case records – November 2024
2023
Hawaii News Now reports on work being done by the Hawaiian Mission House to recover and digitize archival artifacts related to Lahaina’s history – September 2023
NPR reports on the destruction of the Na’Aikane o Maui Cultural and Research Center by recent wildfires on the island – August 2023
2014
"Endangered Archives" program opens up priceless Palestinian heritage - May 2014
Fighting for history: Iraq, the US and the hidden Jewish archive - May 2014
Report: Deal Reached to Save Iraqi Jewish Archive - May 2014
2013
Letter to Target Re: Closing of Archives - October 2013
NEH Funding, FY 2014 - July 2013
National Library and Archives of Grenada - June 2013
Save Libary and Archvies of Canada - May 2013
2012
Letter from Gregor Trinkaus-Randall - May 2012
Intelligence Authorization Bill, 2013 - November 2012
Occupy Library and Archive News
Canada's Past Matters Campaign - November 2012
Georgia Archives Closure - September 2012
U.S., Vietnam build trust through exchange of tender relics
2011
International protest over the return of Hungarian Communist spy files.
Micheal Hirsch, an amateur historian and genealogist, reveals the names of "unknown" workers killed in the Triangle Waist Compnay fire of 1911.
The Roman State Archives has suffered budget cuts, but an exhibition exposing the wild criminal life of Caravaggio attracts thousands of visitors.
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