In 2017, at the time of controversy over Confederate monuments, the AHA adopted a resolution that stated, in part, "We urge communities faced with decisions about monuments to draw on the expertise of historians both for understanding the facts and chronology underlying such monuments and for deriving interpretive conclusions based on evidence." In 2016-2019, a controversy developed over New Deal murals at San Francisco's George Washington High School. In 2019, the San Francisco Unified School District board voted unanimously first to destroy the murals and later to cover them, an action that was nation-wide news. In 2021, a state judge ruled that the board's action had violated state law. Throughout the controversy, historians were involved; the judge's opinion specifically cited letters to the board by two historians. But the school board and school superintendent showed no interest in anything historians had to say. This roundtable will take up the following questions: What was the role of historians in the controversy? How were historians' contributions received by all parties? Why did school officials ignore historians' views? What does this suggest for historians' participation in such controversies in the future?