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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 City of Philadelphia escalated its defense of the President’s House slavery memorial this week, filing a July 8 petition with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals demanding a rehearing of the panel decision that authorized the Trump administration to replace exhibits honoring the nine people enslaved by George Washington at the site. The petition argues the July 3 mandate—issued one day after Interior requested “immediate issuance” citing the First Circuit’s July 2 ruling—granted unprecedented speed to a content substitution historians have condemned for whitewashing Washington’s culpability. Philadelphia’s opposition brief, filed late Tuesday afternoon, contends the federal government provided no justification for installation before the city’s appeal could be heard. The boarded-up memorial on 6th and Market streets now sits at the center of parallel legal battles over whether the administration can rewrite slavery narratives at the nation’s founding sites as the 250th anniversary approaches.
The Philadelphia petition comes as the July 2 First Circuit decision continues to reverberate across the litigation landscape. That ruling reversed Judge Angel Kelley’s June 12 injunction, clearing the National Park Service to resume exhibit removals at all 433 park sites while appeals proceed. The three-judge panel’s finding that plaintiffs could not demonstrate substantial injury from a stay eliminated the sole legal barrier protecting content flagged under the Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History executive order. Philadelphia’s rehearing demand represents the first coordinated pushback against the cascade effect of the Boston ruling, which Interior has now cited in Third Circuit filings to justify expedited installation timelines. With replacement panels already manufactured and 57 exhibits from 40 parks stripped before Kelley’s now-vacated order, the administration faces no remaining obstacles to permanent content removal at sites from Fort Pulaski to Harpers Ferry.