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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.
An internal NPS database seen by CNN on May 2 reveals the industrial scale of the administration’s removal campaign: hundreds of displays flagged for review under Executive Order 14253, with at least 45 changes already executed according to advocacy group Save Our Signs. The database catalogs targets ranging from signs at Muir Woods National Monument describing Indigenous contributions and genocide to climate-driven sea level rise warnings at Fort Sumter and slavery references at sites in St. Croix and Washington, DC. The leak transforms what had been anecdotal reporting into documentary evidence of a systematic effort to reshape public interpretation across the entire park system, giving litigants and lawmakers a concrete inventory of the administration’s ideological reach.
The disclosure arrived four days after Reps. Sharice Davids (KS-03) and Dan Goldman (NY-10) introduced the Truth in National Parks Act on April 28, legislation requiring restoration of all materials removed since January 20, 2025 and mandating tribal consultation before future exhibit changes. The bill explicitly targets removals at Grand Canyon and Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, establishing a 90-day restoration deadline and directing a comprehensive report on co-stewardship agreements between Indigenous communities and federal agencies. The CNN database leak provides the evidentiary substrate for the legislative push: what began as site-specific advocacy now has a documented, system-wide factual foundation, enabling lawmakers to argue that the administration’s orders constitute not isolated corrections but a wholesale reengineering of historical memory at federal expense.