More history exhibits pulled from national parks, including Grand Canyonhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-history-exhibits-pulled-from-national-parks-including-grand-canyon/ar-AA1V4dCx?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=28452497ffdc4e11f2571fc57a41f3c0&ei=30 🔗 [Link: msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-history-exhibits-pulled-from-national-parks-including-grand-canyon/ar-AA1V4dCx/]Jake Spring (27 Jan 2026)
Trump officials have ordered national parks to remove dozens of signs and displays related to climate change, environmental protection and settlers' mistreatment of Native Americans in a renewed push to implement President Donald Trump's executive order on "restoring truth and sanity to American history."
Park staff have interpreted Trump's directive — which seeks to scrub federal institutions of what it calls "partisan ideology" and remove any content deemed to "disparage Americans past or living" — to include any references to historic racism and sexism, as well as climate change and LGBTQ rights. Last week, that included the removal of an exhibit at Independence National Historical Park that focused on George Washington's ownership of enslaved people.
In a new wave of orders this month, Trump officials instructed staff to remove or edit signs and other informational materials in at least 17 additional parks in Arizona, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Montana and Wyoming, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post. The documents also listed some removals ordered in August and September of last year.
The administration's broad attempt to suppress true stories "should offend every American," said Kristen Brengel, senior vice president of government affairs for the National Parks Conservation Association.
Brengel emphasized that Park Service staffers are acting on administration orders. "Everyone understands this history," she said. "It's not debatable, but they're being forced to select stories because they think the administration will threaten their jobs if they don't."
