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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.
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s campaign to erase history from America’s national parks. On June 12, 2026, U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston (District of Massachusetts) granted a preliminary injunction in National Parks Conservation Association v. Department of the Interior (No. 1:26-cv-10877), ordering the Interior Department to restore the signs, displays, and interpretive exhibits it stripped from parks nationwide—on slavery, climate change, Indigenous history, and civil rights—within 21 days, by July 3, the nation’s 250th birthday. In her 63-page ruling, Judge Kelley wrote that the administration had tried to “rewrite the Nation’s history with a white-out pen,” setting a dangerous precedent of “censorship and sanitization.” At least 45 signs and exhibits were altered under Executive Order 14253 (March 2025) and Secretary Doug Burgum’s Secretary’s Order 3431—from the President’s House slavery exhibit in Philadelphia, where federal employees used crowbars to peel away panels about the nine African-Americans George Washington enslaved, to quotes by Black civil-rights activist William Monroe Trotter at Bunker Hill Monument in Boston.
The ruling comes as evidence mounts that the administration’s own crowdsourced censorship campaign backfired spectacularly. An Associated Press analysis by reporters Jack Dura and Mead Gruver of roughly 35,000 public comments submitted via Interior’s QR-code feedback program between June 2025 and January 2026 found that only 14 comments—0.04 percent—actually called for removals as intended. Instead, more than half showed signs of coordinated backlash against the censorship effort itself, with nearly 28 percent expressing general opposition to the executive order, according to the Center for Western Priorities. The court has ordered the government to file weekly progress reports while litigation continues. Attorney and tour guide Raina Yancey and activists in Philadelphia are now pressing for full restoration of the President’s House exhibit by July 4, when the city celebrates the 250th anniversary—though much of the original display remains missing.