The Missing History of Our National Parks

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.

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685 Flagged
9 Court-Restored
798 Total Entries
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Why This Map Exists

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This data belongs to the American people, who need to know what is being done in their name. Donald Trump, Russell Vought, Doug Burgum, and the rest of this corrupt administration are trying to use your public lands to erase history and undermine science.

Executive Order 14253 “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” and Secretary Order 3431 directed parks to censor any content “that inappropriately disparages Americans…or that emphasizes matters unrelated to the beauty, abundance, or grandeur” of natural features.
Why Are They Censoring Science and History?

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.