M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska

Mentioned in Wesley Morris and Jennifer Schuessler, "The Bicentennial Was Better," Cannonball podcast, New York Times, August 14, 2026
Featured Guest, "Little House on the Prairie, The Bicentennial, and How History Came Alive in the 1970s with M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska," Landline with Mary Mahoney podcast, July 7, 2026
Quoted in James Pollard, "Navigating the partisan air of the 250th in search of a unifying tone," Associated Press, July 7, 2026
Quoted in Hunter Schwarz, "What A Democratic America250 Might Have Looked Like," Fast Company, July 4, 2026
Quoted in Kayoko Geji, "American Independence and the 'Second Founding' 250 Years Later: Trump's Historical Perspective Continues to Regain Power," The Asahi Shimbun (Japan), July 4, 2026
Quoted in Hady Mawajdeh and Noel King, "The solution to America's 250th birthday mess? Party like it's 1976," Vox, July 4, 2026
Quoted in Robert Tait, "The US celebrated the end of a 'long national nightmare' as it turned 200. What about now?" The Guardian, July 4, 2026
Quoted in Diogo Bercito, "EUA, 250 anos: Aniversário tem patriotismo e revisionismo," Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), July 3, 2026
Featured interview, Ted Oberg, "Bigger fireworks, bigger politics: The fight over America's 250th," NBC News4, July 2, 2026
Quoted in John Garrison Marks, "We Hold These Truds: A Search For The Weirdest Piece Of America 250 Merchandise," Defector, July 1, 2026
Quoted in Josh Moody, "With AI 'Founders,' Trump Administration Tells Triumphal Story of America," Inside Higher Ed, June 30, 2026
Quoted in Kelsey Ables, "Here Come Trump's 'Freedom Trucks,'" The Atlantic, June 26, 2026
Quoted in Laura Bliss, "The Money and Influence Behind America's Very MAGA 250th Birthday Party," Bloomberg, June 24, 2026
Quoted in Iker Seisdedos García, "Trump hijacks America's 250th anniversary with a big MAGA party," El Pais, June 23, 2026
Quoted in Louis Jacobson, "America's 250th anniversary compared with its 200th: Measuring the mood in 1976 and now," Politifact, June 15, 2026
Featured Guest, "America's Birthday Blues," Today, Explained podcast, Vox Media, June 9, 2026
Quoted in Cleve R. Wootson, Jr. "America's 250th birthday celebration increasingly centers on Trump," Washington Post, June 3, 2026
Cited in Matt Welch, "The Federal Government Botched the Bicentennial Too," Reason, June 1, 2026.
Quoted in Anna Diamond, "A Summer Travel Checklist for America's 250th Birthday," New York Times, May 21, 2026
Cited in Jennifer Schuessler, "How a Radical Historian Saved the Schlock of '76," New York Times, May 1, 2026
Quoted in Jennifer Schuessler, "America Is Anxious About Its 250th Birthday. So Are Historians," New York Times, April 21, 2026
Featured in Jill Lepore, "Scandal, Protest, Goofiness, and Grandeur at the U.S. Bicentennial," New Yorker, March 2, 2026
Quoted in Kenneth P. Vogel et al, "For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump," New York Times, January 8, 2026
Quoted in Karissa Waddick, "A yearlong birthday party. Inside America's 250th anniversary plans," USAToday, January 14, 2026
Quoted in Karissa Waddick, "Trump launches Freedom 250 to add his mark on USA 250 celebrations," USAToday, December 19, 2025
Interviewed for Pressure (feature-length documentary on Trump in Washington) ARTE (Dir. Tim Boehme, French/German Public TV), April, 2025
Quoted in Anders Tornsø Jørgensen, "The U.S. is turning 250 soon — and Trump has big plans," (trans) Politiken (Denmark), October 2, 2025
Quoted in Rob Copeland, "Michael Milken's Curious Temple to the American Dream," New York Times, September 27, 2025
Featured in Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, "Will Trump's brand of politics crash America's 250th Birthday Party?," CNN, September 6, 2025
Quoted in Natalia Cabrera, "Trump threatens the Smithsonian: Who tells the story and how?" France24, September 4, 2025
Quoted in Nicolas Chapuis, "In Washington, Donald Trump attacks culture to promote his vision of America," Le Monde (France), August 14, 2025
Quoted in Iker Seisdedos, "This is how Trump plans to rewrite American history in time for the 250th anniversary," El Pais (Spain), July 24, 2025
Quoted in Natalia Cabrera, "Trump's Attempt to Remake America Turns 100," France24, April 26, 2025
Interviewed by David Whettstone, "We The People" broadcast, stream, and podcast, WPFW 89.3, April 16, 2025
Quoted in Eric Spitznagel, "Get Ready: It's the 250th Anniversary of the Revolutionary War," New York Post, April 6, 2025
Quoted in Kriston Capps, "Trump Promises Could Have Seismic Impact on Washington Economy," Bloomberg, November 29, 2024
Quoted in Maura Judkis, "With Trump Returning, D.C. Is Dazed And Dismayed By Déjà Vu," Washington Post, November 14, 2024
Interviewed by Ashonti Ford, Gray Television, October 25, 2024
Featured in Livia Gershon, "The Countercultural History of Living Museums," JSTOR Daily, January 10, 2024
Featured in Jennifer Schuessler, "Will America Be Ready for its 250th Birthday?," New York Times, July 3, 2023
Featured in Hans Ziegler, "For America's 250th Birthday, Let's Think Local," American Heritage 68:4 (Summer, 2023)
Featured Historian, D.B. Cooper, Where Are You? (Dir. Marina Zenovich, Netflix, 2022), 3 episodes
Featured in Julio Capo, Jr., "From 'Oregon Trail' to 'Uncharted,' Video Games Make History Fun," Washington Post, August 5, 2022
Featured in John G. Marks, "The 250th Birthday of the U.S. Is Just a Few Years Away. Get Ready for Controversy," Time, March 21, 2022
Quoted in John Kelly, "The Pandemic Isn't Stopping D.C.'s Annual History Conference," Washington Post, November 11, 2020
Quoted in Joe Heim, "A New Fellowship to Explore the White House's History of Slavery," Washington Post, October 12, 2020
Featured in Andy Golder, "There's A Shirtless, Sexy Abe Lincoln Statue And I Can't Believe It's Real," Buzzfeed, May 4, 2018, online
Quoted in Adrienne Gaffney, "What Curators Are Looking For in Women's March Signs," Architectural Digest, January 31, 2017, online
"History Comes Alive," interview, New Books Network podcast, 2018