america250 hashtag performance
Celebrating America's upcoming 250th birthday! Expect patriotic content, historical reflections, future visions, community events, and expressions of American identity. Discover diverse perspectives and explore national pride surrounding this milestone.
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The war for honest history is now a guerrilla fight. And here is a long video to explain it all. The National Endowment for the Humanities has been reprogrammed to fund nationalist mythmaking instead of real public history. Now funding will go to sanitized, celebratory history that promotes "patriotic education." Museums, historic sites, and public historians now face a choice. #PublicHistory #HonestHistory #NEH #HistoryMatters #resistancehistory #GuerrillaHistory #roguehistory #america250 #taskforce250 #1776commission #patrioticeducation
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Trump calls himself King, and the internet claps back with bad history. But we can’t fight authoritarianism by twisting the past. If we want to defend honest history, we have to keep it honest. Let’s talk about why that matters. #HonestHistory #PublicHistory #AmericanRevolution #america250
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The NEA Has Been 1776’d—And the NEH Is Next The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) just canceled all grants applications and is forcing every applicant to reapply under new ideological guidelines. Now, if you want funding, your project should align with America250—which is functionally the 1776 Commission’s nationalist history agenda under "Task Force 250". What’s changed? - Challenge America program—gone. That was the NEA’s funding stream for small, diverse, and community-based arts projects. Now, those groups must compete under the new general rules. - Five-year history requirement added. This isn’t the usual thing about proving experience—it’s a loyalty test to vet applicants for ideological alignment. If your work over the last five years hasn’t already fit their nationalist mold, you’re probably out. - The NEA and NEH chairs now sit on Task Force 250. This is not a coincidence. The purge isn’t stopping at the arts. What does this mean for history? - The NEH is next. Expect museums, public history projects, and documentaries to be forced into “patriotic” narratives—or lose funding entirely. - Honest history is on the chopping block. Work that confronts slavery, Indigenous dispossession, systemic racism, or oppression will be defunded. - This is ideological control. They don’t just want to rewrite history—they want to decide who gets to tell it. What now? - Talk about this. Make sure people know. - If you’re a filmmaker, historian, or educator, lean into independent funding sources, such as @seedandsparkhq, that aren’t compromised. - Watch what gets funded—and question why. Because if they control the funding, they control the stories. #resistancehistory #america250 #neh #nea #HistoryMatters #PublicHistory #honesthistory #Resistance #Authoritarianism #filmmaker #documentary @docorg
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This summer, we’re moving forward with a 12-week public history course, free and open to all. Normally, I cover a wide range of topics, but given the onslaught of historical distortion about the American founding, I’m making a shift—focusing on public history and the American Revolution. Because right now, that’s where the battle is. Public history isn’t just about what happened—it’s about who controls the narrative, who gets included, and how the past is used to justify power. The patriot myth wasn’t just built for nostalgia; it was built for control. And we’re going to take it apart. Each week, we’ll tackle a question, using videos, readings, and live discussions (on Zoom, TikTok, IG, and YouTube). Sessions will be recorded, and all materials will be available for free. If you want to keep up with the course, the best place to stay organized is on Patreon (free level) at Revolutionary Truths—not because it’s paywalled, but because I can track emails, organize materials, and keep everything in one place. (At least it’s not Canvas or Blackboard—if you know, you know.) History isn’t neutral, and now, it's not even safe. #ResistanceHistory #PublicHistory #HonestHistory #AmericanRevolution #america250 #taskforce250 #1776commission
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This isn’t “patriotic education.” It’s a wave of pseudohistory, poised to sweep away honest accounts of the past and replace them with a shiny, feel-good fantasy. But I’m looking at all the people in our community, all saying: “Not on our watch.” Marc Bloch reminded us that “any compromise with untruth” is the deepest form of corruption. And Tennyson, speaking through Ulysses, gave us this rallying cry: “Though much is taken, much abides; and though / We are not now that strength which in old days / Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, / One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” That’s exactly who we are: a battalion of public historians, educators, and everyday truth-tellers who may feel weaker than we did in simpler times, but who refuse to bow to falsehood. They can defund archives, gut the NEH, and muzzle the Smithsonian, but they can’t erase our connection to each other. Our job now is to channel those lines from Tennyson into the digital sphere, the classroom, the family dinner table, and yes—every corner of the internet where we simply click “like” on someone else’s post in defense of reality. We’ll keep telling unvarnished, inclusive, and evidence-based history. We’ll keep calling out the propaganda and mythologies that masquerade as fact. We’ll keep each other honest. Because the tsunami only wins if we stand aside and watch it roll in. And judging by the numbers, we won’t yield. #ResistanceHistory #PublicHistory #HonestHistory #america250 #taskforce250 #1776commission #HistoryMatters #Resistance
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Trump’s 2025 George Washington isn’t history—it’s propaganda. This isn’t a tribute, it’s a trial run for the next phase of his nationalist agenda: rewriting America’s past to control its future. He wants Washington to be a pure, patriotic warrior for “America First” before America even existed. Why? Because if Washington was always a nationalist icon, then America was always meant to serve the interests of white power, hierarchy, and expansion. That’s the narrative he’s laying the groundwork for—one that justifies his vision of power. Here’s how the myth works: “Victory or Death” – Not a personal motto, just a password for one battle. But if you pretend it was his creed, you turn him into a militant, unwavering force—like the kind of leader Trump wants you to worship. “Trenton changed history” – No, Washington attacked because his army was falling apart. But in Trump’s retelling, he’s always on the offensive, always destined to win. Sound familiar? “Fighting for liberty” – No. Washington fought for political independence so men like him—wealthy, white, and enslaving hundreds—could run their own affairs. That’s the system Trump wants you to believe was divinely ordained. “He won the war” – No. The French did. But that doesn’t fit the self-reliant, American exceptionalist myth Trump needs to sell. This isn’t just about Washington. It’s a template for the history they want to enforce—the version where America was never flawed, never divided, never built on stolen labor and land. The version where slavery, Indigenous displacement, and the fights for civil rights don’t need to be taught because they "distract" from the "real story." This is what the coming patriotic education mandates will push. This is what he wants banned from schools and museums. This is what he needs people to believe so they’ll accept his brand of authoritarian nostalgia. This is just the start. The war on history isn’t coming—it’s here. #ResistanceHistory #PublicHistory #HonestHistory #taskforce250 #HistoryMatters #Resistance #america250 #georgewashington #maga #1776commission #taskforce250 @historianalexiscoe #howrevolutionary #gwmountvernon
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They aren’t erasing Black history—they’re disciplining it to serve white nationalism. Trump just laid it out: Black history is acceptable only when it cheers for 1776. The 1619 Project was too ‘divisive’ because it tells the truth—that slavery wasn’t a tragic exception, it was the economic engine of the nation from the start, fueled by a potent and unique strain of racism. That 1619 isn’t just a date—it’s the moment America began as a slave society. That when the Revolution came, enslaved Black people overwhelmingly saw the British as the better bet for freedom, because the Patriots had no intention of ending their life sentences at hard labor. This is why Trump is obsessed with 1619 vs. 1776. Because if history is made to be just about heroic Founders and the noble cause of liberty, then Black history is only welcome when it props up that lie. The 1776 Commission is back—not to teach history, but to discipline it. Not to educate, but to command obedience. #1619project #1619 #america250 #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #americanrevolution #HonestHistory #PublicHistory #taskforce250 #1776commission
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The Heritage Foundation is coming for public education (again). If Project 2025 is their plan to dismantle democracy, The Phoenix Declaration is their roadmap for gutting public schools and replacing actual history with nationalist propaganda. They’re dressing it up with words like parental rights, academic excellence, and patriotism. But let’s be clear—this is about controlling what the next generation learns and thinks. Here’s what they really want: Rewrite history to fit their distorted, nationalist myths. Defund public schools and push tax dollars into private, religious education. Suppress discussions of race, gender, and inequality under the guise of objective truth. Turn schools into obedience factories instead of places for critical thinking. And, of course, they cherry-pick the Founders to justify this nonsense. And that forced patriotism they keep pushing? That’s not education—it’s indoctrination. If you have to enforce loyalty, then what you’re teaching isn’t patriotism—it’s propaganda. What can you do? Call it out—Heritage Foundation’s talking points are everywhere. Expose them. Defend real education—support teachers, schools, and actual history. Challenge revisionist narratives—when you see the lies, push back. Boost public historians and educators—share their work, like, comment, make sure the truth is heard. #HonestHistory #PublicHistory #america250 #ResistanceHistory #taskforce250 #HistoryMatters #publiceducation #project2025 #education #teachersoftiktok #heritagefoundation #momsforliberty
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