As public institutions, history museums serve their communities by offering spaces for commemoration and reflection. From local museums to nationally significant sites, institutions across the United States strive toward accurate and inclusive tellings of the nation’s past, present, and future. But what do these institutions do when faced with influential groups and government orders that undermine their work? In this session of "Rapid Response History," Anthony Carfello and Madeline Line will discuss how national institutions and historic house museums are navigating government pressures to sanitize and censor historic truths. In particular, they will address the impacts of the Heritage Foundation’s efforts to “[Reclaim] museums’ civic duty” as well as the Japanese American National Museum’s commitment to “scrub nothing” from their telling of Japanese American incarceration during World War II.