Given the widespread ignorance about American history, one would think it helpful for American Heritage to disseminate trusted information about our nation's past to as many people as possible, as we have for 70 years.

But social media companies such as Facebook and Google make it difficult and expensive to disseminate this important information, while, at the same time, promoting frivolous and unvetted writing by amateurs.

Facebook forces us to pay to have our posts seen by more than a handful of people. But these paid "boosts" of our content are often blocked by lifeless algorithms or corporate reviewers who apparently have no idea what our articles are about.

For more information about censorship of American Heritage’s posts, see “No One Platform Should Have All That Power: The Ascendancy of Social Media and the Struggles of Independent Publications,” by Kevin Pollack of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University.

But Facebook has rejected dozens of American Heritage posts for being too political in the last few months, including posts about essays by trusted authors such as:

• A post about the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, our first national park in the U.S.
   
• A post on Martin Luther King Day about an essay about King's legacy by the longtime head of the MLK archives, Clayborne Carson
   
• An essay by one of the women journalists who successfully sued Time, Inc in 1970 recalling the blatant and humiliating discrimination they endured
   
• An anouncement of our monumental new issue on 230 years of presidential misconduct with writing from 30 leading historians
   
• Susan Eisenhower on Ike's efforts to balance the Supreme Court by adding a justice of the opposing party
   
• Doug Brinkley on the Boston Tea Party
   
• Our annual solicitation for donations on "Giving Tuesday" in 2020
   
• Michael Beschloss on the first U.S. Presidents he remembered seeing and the dramatic surge in presidential authority that began in 1933

• Sergei Khruschev's memories of JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis 

• New evidence about Castro's possible advance knowledge of Oswald's plans to murder Pres. Kennedy
   
• Larry Tye on the first look inside Senator Joe McCarthy's secret files
   

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  An article on Barbara Rose Johns, the civil rights icon who, at age 16 years, led a strike against school segregation in Farmville, Virginia in 1951
   
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