{"id":118247,"date":"2026-04-15T09:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/?p=118247"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:56:29","slug":"aha-executive-director-interviewed-about-the-impact-of-neh-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/news\/aha-executive-director-interviewed-about-the-impact-of-neh-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"AHA Executive Director Interviewed About the Impact of NEH Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel sat for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=av6sS4kkCuw\">interview with <em>WUSA9 News<\/em><\/a> for its weekly program <em>Federal Workforce Fallout<\/em> to discuss the impact of the administration\u2019s revocation of NEH grants last year. She discussed DOGE\u2019s role in the process, highlighting the lack of expertise among DOGE employees reviewing grants compared to NEH staff, as well as their limited understanding of DEI. She also addressed DOGE employees\u2019 use of ChatGPT to review and eliminate grants without further examination and emphasized the importance of telling a complete and honest history that reflects the experiences of diverse groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what is so telling from these [deposition] videos is that the current administration has so distorted the meaning of DEI that historical topics that address the experiences of people of color, of women, of LGBTQ+ people, have all been labeled as DEI, when in fact, it\u2019s just history,\u201d Weicksel said. \u201cI like to describe history as an evidence-based interpretive discipline. If you are not considering all the topics, you\u2019re going to have a very boring history, to be honest, but you\u2019re also going to have an unusable past. You have to be able to learn from the entirety of the past to shape your future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Federal Workforce Fallout | How DOGE determined what counts as DEI\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/av6sS4kkCuw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHA executive director Sarah Weicksel sat for an interview with WUSA9 News for its weekly program Federal Workforce Fallout to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"aha-topic":[],"month":[],"geographic-taxonomy":[],"post-type":[582,897,588],"thematic-taxonomy":[],"year":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-118247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"post-type-aha-in-news","8":"post-type-federal-government","9":"post-type-funding-for-history","13":"has-featured-image"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118252,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118247\/revisions\/118252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"aha-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/aha-topic?post=118247"},{"taxonomy":"month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/month?post=118247"},{"taxonomy":"geographic-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/geographic-taxonomy?post=118247"},{"taxonomy":"post-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-type?post=118247"},{"taxonomy":"thematic-taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematic-taxonomy?post=118247"},{"taxonomy":"year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/year?post=118247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}