"President Trump ordered officials to remove information deemed disparaging to the United States. A review of government documents shows little guidance and striking inconsistencies."
"As the Interior Department carries out President Trump’s order to remove or hide information at parks and other sites that might “disparage Americans,” internal records show striking inconsistencies around the displays the agency is eliminating and those it chooses to keep.
An exhibit at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming about the massacre of Blackfeet Native Americans was ordered removed. But at a wildlife refuge in Virginia, the agency preserved an exhibit about the harassment and displacement of Tauxenent people.
It labeled a display on climate change at a North Dakota wildlife refuge “factual.” But it removed similar information at Muir Woods, Acadia National Park and elsewhere.
Historians have called the deletions an effort to sanitize America’s past and erase scientific truths that Mr. Trump dislikes. Critics have also accused the administration of making decisions in secret, leading to erratic choices about what history gets preserved or dismantled."
Lisa Friedman reports for the New York Times March 16, 2026.
