"She really goes to bat for curators who are looking to tell stories that have not been platformed in our nation’s museums. By doing that, she has been wrongfully accused of being ideological, "
The Ralph and Richard Lazarus Professor of History, Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, and Human Relations, Matthew Garcia, was quoted in the New York Times article "Another Smithsonian Director Faces the White House’s Wrath: Historians defended Anthea Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, after the Trump administration accused her of spreading “radical activist ideology.”