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Appeals Court Says Interior Department May Resume Taking Down Slavery Info at President’s House Philadelphia
In a major win for the Trump Administration, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals lifted an order from a Federal District Court halting the removal…
Juneteenth Post Hoc Indictment of the Holiday
Around June 19, I posted several articles on Juneteenth. One looked at the spread of the holiday in Texas after the initial announcement of the…
Grave of General John C. Fremont Pathfinder of the West and Jessie Benton Fremont
If I was to ask you where John C. Fremont was buried, you might answer “In the Rocky Mountains?” Makes sense. Fremont was the “Pathfinder…
Manisha Sinha presents “A New History of Abolition and Emancipation” on Friday June 19 at 7 p.m. at Cazenovia
Manisha Sinha, an Indian-born American historian and author, will present “A New History of Abolition and Emancipation” on Friday, June 19, at 7 p.m., at…
National Park Service Says It Removed At Least 51 Exhibits From 38 Parks In Accord With President’s Executive Order
According to the news service Reuters, the National Park Service has removed 51 exhibits from 38 sites across the United States. The list was compiled…
Juneteenth: Frederick Douglass Remembers Ulysses S. Grant at Grant Cottage
Frederick Douglass Remembers Ulysses S. Grant Friday, June 19, 2026 1:00 PM 2:00 PM Ulysses S. Grant State Historic Site1000 Mount McGregor RoadWilton, NY, 12831United States (map) Google Calendar ICS…
Monument to the Immigrants Who Died in Long Island Shipwreck
Many of us have swum off Nassau Beach at Nickerson County Park in Long Beach. If you had been there in the second and third…
Judge Orders National Park Service to Stop Removing Signs Judged Too “Woke”
Federal District Court Judge Angel Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has ordered the National Park Service (NPS) to stop…
Actual Comments Submitted in Response to Executive Order Going After “Woke” National Park Exhibits
Last week the Sierra Club released the list of comments from visitors to the National Parks to identify so-called “Wokeness” in Exhibits and presentations. The…
Civilian Reports on National Park “Wokeness” Are Released
Right after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, he issued one of his first Executive Orders commanding the the National Park System restore “sanity”…