Historian Dr. Jody Edward Ginn has levied serious accusations against Smithsonian Institution Director Dr. Anthea Hartig, asserting that her career has been characterized by an activist and Marxist-inspired approach to history rather than objective scholarship. Ginn’s research suggests Hartig has consistently pushed historical organizations toward activist missions, citing her early 1995 article, “In a World He Has Created,” which analyzed California’s citrus industry through a Marxist lens, focusing on a “ruling class” manipulating the landscape and employing what she termed “paternalistic, elitist, racist, sexist promotional fare.” Ginn contends this article reads as a “political treatise” and an “advocating for a particular point of view, a Marxist-informed point of view, and not an objective historical analysis.” Further scrutiny falls on Hartig’s leadership roles, including her presidency of the Organization of American Historians (OAH), an organization Ginn describes as “well on the record for advocating for people’s activism,” and her presidential address to the OAH titled “Where Have All the Women Gone? Let’s Bring Them Back before It’s Too Late,” which Ginn implies continues this activist trajectory. These claims stand in stark contrast to Hartig’s recent Capitol Hill testimony, where she stated the Smithsonian operates non-partisanship and “does not take sides in America’s political debates,” a statement Ginn finds disingenuous given Hartig’s documented background and resurfaced video footage where she describes history as a “tool of social justice.”
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