Impact Survey (updated October 2025)

Fill out this form to help AASLH better understand—and draw attention to—the impact of recent government actions and/or the current political environment on the history field. Specific stories of local impact shape the direction of AASLH's advocacy work and may (with your permission) inform legal, legislative, media, and other strategies in support of the history community. All responses will be kept strictly confidential unless you provide us with permission to use your submission. We ask for your email address in case AASLH staff or relevant partners want to follow up; that field is optional, but if you fill it out, please use an email address from which you are comfortable corresponding about these issues.

Please note: Due to the volume of responses, we are unable to reply to each submission. Please know that your response is being reviewed by AASLH staff and that by filling out this survey you are aiding our efforts to defend the field.

YOUR INFORMATION
Please provide some information about you and the institution you work for, if applicable.

1.Name

2.Institution

3.State

4.Email

IMPACTS
Please describe below different ways that government actions and/or the current political environment are reshaping the work at your institution. We encourage you to be as specific and detailed as possible.

5.CONTENT: Have you or your institution received direction or felt pressure to change, add, or remove content (in exhibitions, live events, tours, websites, K12 tools, training documents, etc.) due to the current political environment?

6.FUNDING: Have you or your institution lost any funding (sponsors, non-federal grants, donors, etc.) due to the current political environment? Please do not include funds lost from the initial wave of federal grant cancellations in spring 2025.

7.AUDIENCE: Have you or your institution noticed any changes in audience engagement (variations in visitation, attendance at events, audience feedback) due to the current political environment?

8.Are there any other impacts to your work you would like to share?

9.Are there any ways you are responding/adapting to the current political environment that might be instructive to the field?

PERMISSION TO SHARE
To make the information gathered here most effective, AASLH would like to be able to share it with the wider history community and with other relevant parties. Please indicate below whether and how we can share your story.

10.Do you give AASLH permission to share your submission with the field and with other relevant parties? Please select all that apply.(Required.)

You can share my submission with the field.

You can share my submission with the field ONLY if you remove my name and institution name.

You can share my submission with philanthropic organizations, charitable foundations, or other relevant parties interested in supporting history.

You can share my submission and contact information with other organizations' attorneys in service of potential legal action in support of the field.

You can share my submission and contact information with journalists interested in the experiences of the history field.

Do not share any part of my submission, I only want to inform AASLH.