April 13, 2026
At a time when the Trump Administration is quickly altering public interpretations of history and removing references to the past on websites and public spaces, it is vital that historians keep track of what is changing. The Early Republic Tracker is dedicated to documenting instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, museums, websites, and executive agencies.
Where/When did the changes take place?
On December 1, 2025, all content was removed from the popular NEH website, EDSITEment.
What changed?
According to an early December Bluesky post from the NEH Union: “EDSITEment – a project National Endowment for the Humanities with 30 years of development and over 1,000 lesson plans and resources for K-16 students that attracted 2.5 million visitors per year – appears to have been archived and is no longer accessible.”
The Panorama has verified that this is correct. Materials were fully available at the beginning of December 1, 2025 (as evidenced by this archived page) but were fully removed, replaced by a description of the project with no access to any content when next archived on December 7.
Dismantle Culture & Media, a research firm with extensive experience working with organizations like the Library of Congress and the American Folklife Center, reported in their May 2025 newsletter that their contract to develop material for a “large curriculum content expansion” of EDSITEment was abruptly cancelled; they were told that the “the federal government discontinued the EDSITEment project during the downsizing of the NEH” in April of 2025, though materials remained online until early December.
Why does the change matter?
This site had many vetted, thorough lesson plans for teaching history. Removing the entire site erases a valuable resource.
Website/location/document where change was made?
https://www.neh.gov/project/edsitement
Evidence of change?
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