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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”…

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Bunker Hill Monuments Set to Lose Quotes From the Civil War and Reconstruction Era

The National Park Service exhibition at the Bunker Hill Monument is undergoing changes in response to President Trump’s 2025 Executive Order “Restoring Sanity” in the…

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Sample Comment on the Triumphal Arch at Arlington National Cemetery

In yesterday’s post I discussed the need for you to submit comments on the proposed Triumphal Arch across from the Lincoln Memorial. Several people asked…

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House Rejects President’s Massive Cuts to National Park Service

The House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior rejected yet another year of massive cuts to the National Park Service Budget (NPS) for 2027. The…

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Administration Proposes a Second Year of Massive Cuts to the National Park Service

Congress has been holding hearings this week on the proposed budget for the National Park Service (NPS). As you likely know, last year the Administration…

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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park Maryland

The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park is at 4068 Golden Hill Road Church Creek, Maryland  21622 is a relatively new site jointly run…

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Video: The Massacre of U.S. Colored Troops at Camp Nelson in Kentucky

PBS recently did a documentary of United States Colored Troops and Black refugees that sought refuge at the Union’s Camp Nelson in Kentucky in 1864…

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Congaree National Park May Have to Redact Three Items of Printed Material on Slavery

Congaree National Park in South Carolina is eighteen miles southeast of the state’s capital of Columbia. The park gets fewer than 150,000 visitors every year…

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Slide Show With Instructions for Tagging National Park Exhibits for Removal for Violating Executive Order

I have been posting photos for the last six weeks that Interior Department staff have identified as National Park exhibits being in violation of President…

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