Renée Carl

A very mistaken list of the last 12 presidents of the United States and their years in office produced by the Ph.D level scholar known as ChatGPT-5. Includes John F. Katwady, president 1991-1968; George W. bush, president 220Z-1999), and Bill Christen, president 1999-2001

I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

You Saved the DC Archives Building Project! DC Council Provides Full Funding for DC Archives Project at UDC in FY 2026 Budget

Sometimes there is good news on Fridays. The DC Council restored full funding for the DC Archives Project at UDC in FY 2026 Budget. Thanks to all the organizations and individuals who spoke out and spoke up for the importance of access to DC records. dcarchivesadvocates.substack.com/p/you-saved-...

60-year-old Black history archive faces uncertain future after federal cuts The Amistad Research Center, one of largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants.

Erasing history by defunding #archives
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Trump's Assault on the NPS is Not a Disagreement Over History. It is an Attack on History Itself We need to stop framing this ongoing “review,” ordered by the Trump administration of the National Park Service’s interpretive assets, as a disagreement over history.

Trump's Assault on the NPS is Not a Disagreement Over History. It is an Attack on History Itself. #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

It is, both majority and minority members need to hear the public doesn't support cuts to NARA. Tools and tips at fundNARA.com (being updated with more info this week)

A $4 million cut. The FY26 proposal was for $404m & the House subcommittee cut $4m out. They also redirected $10m of the remaining $400m away from other parts of the Operating Budget to be used specifically for electronic initiatives - in essence taking away $14m - when NARA needs $100s million more

Err, $14 million...

NARA needs millions more than this for electronic records (by comparison, electronic records received more than $45 million in 2007) and for all other parts of the Operating Budget. Speak out - tell Congress no cuts to NARA. Learn how at fundNARA.com

NARA's Operating Budget supports Legislative, Presidential and Museum Services, Citizen Services, Agency and Related Services, Facility Operations, and Electronic Archives.

But that's not all - the subcommittee instructs NARA to use $30 million of the $400 million for electronic records. The budget submitted to Congress proposed $20 million for electronic records, so if this bill passes as is, NARA will have $15 million less for other parts of the Operating Budget.

Clip of proposed legislation submitted by House Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee slashes an additional $4million from NARA's already meager budget

Today the House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee slashed an additional $4million from the National Archives's already meager budget for FY26.

The National Archives at College Park, Maryland We hold permanent records created by Federal agencies that include: Textual records from civilian agencies Army unit records dating from WW1 Navy unit records dating from WW2 Still pictures Electroni...

NARA removed the banner and all the changes to the wording online. Now please use all this energy and fight the massive funding cuts for NARA, because that will do more damage than we can ever imagine.

Just imagine if everyone freaked out about funding cuts for NARA like they are about this message...

The Executive for Research Services responded, "Onsite research is a legitimate business need to access the facility. There is additional information on the Visitor Requirements section of the National Archives at College Park webpage."

Research is considered a legitimate business need according to the head of Research Services.

A satellite map shows the remote location researchers must now use to park when visiting the National Archives at College Park. The text describing the parking lot is at the link.

Meanwhile, scroll down on the A2 page and learn they took away our parking. www.archives.gov/college-park

Write to NARA and ask them to explain. inquire@nara.gov and other addresses at www.archives.gov/about/organi...

I remain concerned

They say this is just reinforcing rules that have been in place for more than a decade. In other words, don't come to A2 just to eat in the cafeteria.

They say this is just reinforcing rules that are already in place for more than a decade.

The National Archives at College Park, Maryland We hold permanent records created by Federal agencies that include: Textual records from civilian agencies Army unit records dating from WW1 Navy unit records dating from WW2 Still pictures Electroni...

🚨🚨"Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the general public."

Without the new DC State Archives building, there's no access for DC records, and the amazing and unique historical records will remain out of reach. Speak up, DC!

If you do the math, the cuts are nearly 14%, not 3% like the PR claims.

Reposting for the morning crowd - cuts to NARA staff.

If you can't find the previous employment numbers on web.archive.org, I have the website pages in PDF form. I keep receipts.

National Archives by the Numbers (as of June 16, 2025) ​Locations: 40 facilities in 17 states, plus the District of Columbia Number of staff: 2,744 Size of permanent archival holdings: 13.5 billion pieces of paper More than 725,000 a...

As of 5 Feb 2025, the www.archives.gov/about/info/n... page reported 2,891 employees. Since then,
151 employees took the fork, and these positions cannot be backfilled.
43 took VERA/VSIP
100 RIFs are anticipated
Another 110 left NARA since 5 Feb for other reasons.

Nearly 14% of the workforce.

Trump administration resumes layoffs, targeting National Archives staff Employees warn of impacts at presidential libraries and on records retrieval.

NARA RIFs starting today. NARA claims 3% cut in workforce but their math is wrong. It's more like 14%.

Welcome to the archives.

*Some* Americans. Don't throw all of us under the bus.

Acquisitions of new materials will be drastically limited & subscriptions to genealogy databases will be discontinued.