Advocacy News and Actions

2025

As Trump's White House purges public records, these independent databases are keeping their own archives - May 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

Axios reports on efforts around the globe by archivists, libraries, museums, and historical organizations to record and digitize oral histories from the last generation of Holocaust survivors – July 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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