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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 Trump administration completed its installation of replacement panels at Philadelphia’s President’s House Site overnight Tuesday, July 14 into Wednesday, July 15, removing exhibits that centered the nine people enslaved by George Washington and substituting displays that emphasize executive power and early American independence. Workers arrived at 5 a.m. Wednesday to install more than 20 new panels, according to representatives from the Avenging The Ancestors Coalition, who discovered the changes hours later. The new configuration relocates slavery content to the rear of the site while visitors entering from Market Street now encounter panels celebrating the presidential mansion’s architectural history. One replacement panel describes the enslaved individuals as “dynamic participants in the daily life of the family and the city,” language Michael Coard condemned as a complete whitewashing of American history. The installation occurred as South Philadelphia hosted MLB All-Star Game events, prompting Mayor Cherelle Parker to accuse the federal government of acting “under the cover of darkness.”
The overnight replacement marks the first completed content substitution at a major urban heritage site since the July 3 Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruling authorized exhibit changes while Philadelphia’s appeal proceeds. That decision—issued one day after Interior requested “immediate issuance” of the mandate—reversed lower court protections and cleared the National Park Service to resume installations at the President’s House and other flagged locations. The three-judge panel praised the replacement content as “full of historical context,” a characterization historians and civil rights advocates reject as sanitizing Washington’s culpability as an enslaver. With 57 exhibits from 40 parks already stripped before the now-vacated June 12 injunction, the Philadelphia installation demonstrates the administration’s capacity to execute permanent removals at sites nationwide under the Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History executive order. The completed work eliminates the city’s last physical leverage in ongoing litigation over whether the federal government can rewrite slavery narratives at founding-era sites as the 250th anniversary approaches.