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Finding U.S. government documents
- As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them (NPR)"It's typical for new presidential administrations to make changes to federal websites... But [Mark] Graham [director of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine] said that under Trump's second term, the scope and sheer pace of the deletions of government data has been unprecedented."
- Major budget cuts proposed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NPR, April 11, 2025)NOAA has claimed to collect more data than any other organization in the world.
Two guides to locating government information during the second term of Donald Trump:
Federal Government Information After the 2025 Transition is a guide from UC-San Diego.
GODORT (Government Documents Roundtable) 2025 Presidential Transition guide
Some of the sites mentioned in the above guides include:
GovWayback shows how to use the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to access previous versions of U.S. government websites.
GovWayback's site has details and more complex examples, but it essentially involves adding wayback.com immediately after the .gov portion of the URL, for instance:
nih.gov becomes nih.govwayback.com
For more archived government documents, try Data.Gov at Harvard Law School.
CyberCemetery (hosted by the University of North Texas) archives websites of defunct government agencies.
Presidential Actions of interest
- "Restoring truth and sanity to American history" (March 27, 2025)Concerns the Smithsonian Institution and Department of Interior sites.
- "Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness" (January 20, 2025)Encourages replacement of members of U.S. Board on Geographic Names; changes names of Denali (to former name, Mt. McKinley) and Gulf of Mexico.
More JFK assassination records released
- JFK Asssassination Records (National Archives)The remaining records in the JFK Assassination File were released on 18 March 2025.
New website: Wiener Holocaust Library
- Wiener Holocaust LibraryA new digital archive, based in London, of over 150,000 documents related to the Holocaust and its aftermath.
New report on the Tulsa Race Massacre
Review and evaluation: Tulsa Race Massacre -- although scholars have written about May 31 and June 1,1921, this document from the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice is "the federal government’s first thorough reckoning with this devastating event."
Department website
TSU offers the B.A. and B.S. in history, with or without teacher licensure.
The history department also hosts the Samuel Shannon lecture series, the Annual Africa Conference, and the African-American History & Culture Conference. See the department website for details.