A collaboration with The New School & the European Democracy Institute
 
Year: <span>2026</span>

Year: 2026

Memory, Slavery, and the Struggle for Truth in American Museums

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In March 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” aimed at rooting out “corrosive ideology” in the Smithsonian institutions and other federal sites of memory and history. The order accuses sites like the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), which has extensive exhibits on slavery and segregation, of making a “concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our …

New Chapter for the Democracy Seminar

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This issue marks a new chapter in the Democracy Seminar’s history. Four decades after its founding as a forum for democratic correspondence across borders, the Seminar begins a new phase through its partnership with the European Democracy Institute at Bard College Berlin and the New School for Social Research. The relaunch comes at a moment when democratic institutions face renewed pressures around the world. Growing authoritarianism, democratic backsliding, …