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Every pin on this map is a piece of American history the current administration has flagged for removal. These are real exhibits, signs, and publications from our national parks. They are historically accurate and now targeted for censorship. Click any marker to learn more about the history and why it matters.
This data belongs to the American people, who need to know what is being done to our National Parks. This administration is trying to use our public lands to erase history and undermine science.
Dismantling trusted sources of science and history makes their agenda of lies easier. Profiting from coal and oil is a lot easier if the impacts of fossil fuels are censored at sites like Muir Woods, Glacier, Acadia, and Everglades.
It’s easier to illegally detain people if we forget the true stories of Japanese-American incarceration in World War II, told at national park sites like Manzanar and Minidoka and Amache and Tule Lake and Honouliuli.
Propping up systemic racism is easier if you hide the evidence of the atrocities of chattel slavery, Jim Crow, and white nationalism at park sites like Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home, Cane River Creole, Rock Creek, and Independence Hall.
Most of all, they want to turn the American people against their national parks. They want to discredit the national parks and set the stage to privatize them.
Look at what they are censoring. Study it. Save it.
Find other people who care, and organize to fight back.
Build community around the science and history they want to erase.
And help us stop them.
The Avenging the Ancestors Coalition will hold its 24th annual Slavery Commiseration on Tuesday, August 25 at 4 p.m. at the President’s House site on Independence Mall, marking the anniversary of the first documented enslaved Africans arriving in America in 1619. The ceremony takes on new urgency following the Trump administration’s overnight installation on July 14 of new panels that advocates say dilute Washington’s direct culpability as an enslaver, instead telling a “broader story about slavery” that emphasizes anti-slavery sentiments of slave-owning Founding Fathers. The annual gathering serves as both remembrance of the nine enslaved people George Washington brought to Philadelphia and resistance to federal control over the historical narrative at the contested site.
The commemoration follows Philadelphia’s request earlier in August for the 3rd Circuit to rehear the case over the President’s House exhibit changes, extending litigation that has become emblematic of nationwide battles over historical interpretation in federal spaces. The legal maneuvering occurs as grassroots resistance efforts continue to document and contest exhibit removals across the park system, transforming sites like the President’s House into focal points where ceremonial gatherings double as acts of defiance against what organizers describe as systematic erasure of slavery’s centrality to American history.