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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.
On April 28, Reps. Sharice Davids (KS-03) — one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress — and Dan Goldman (NY-10) introduced the Truth in National Parks Act, legislation that would bar the Interior Department from removing historically and culturally accurate interpretive materials from national parks and require restoration of any content removed since January 20, 2025. The bill goes beyond a simple reversal mandate: it codifies a requirement for tribal consultation before any future changes to exhibits about Native American history and directs a comprehensive report on co-stewardship agreements between Indigenous communities and federal agencies. The measure targets the administration’s removal directive head-on, transforming what began as emergency advocacy into a legislative effort to permanently limit Interior’s unilateral power over historical interpretation.
Four days earlier, on April 24, the conservation coalition led by the National Parks Conservation Association filed new briefing in federal court arguing that Interior’s orders have caused concrete organizational harm — diverting resources from core missions and pressuring members to either self-censor or defy best practices for historical accuracy. The dual-track strategy is now clear: while litigation seeks immediate injunctive relief by demonstrating ongoing damage to organizational capacity, the Davids-Goldman bill aims to embed protections directly into statute, ensuring that no future administration can unilaterally scrub exhibits on slavery, Indigenous nations, or climate science without tribal input and congressional oversight. The week marks a pivot from reactive defense to structural counteroffensive.