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Call Your Senator Today to Try to Save the National Park Service from a 37% Cut in Funding
The Trump administration has proposed a 37% cut in funding for the National Park Service (NPS). This would be a cut of more $1.2 Billion…
Trump to Rename Military Bases Whose Names Were Stripped Because They Were Names After Confederates
A little over four years ago, military bases named after Confederate officers were required by law to drop those names. In December 2020 the Senate…
DOGE Stops Funding of Whitney Plantation Which Tells the Story of Enslaved Blacks
The Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana was founded in 1752. It contained dozens of enslaved African Americans until the Civil War broke out. In 2014…
Federal Government Stops Funding “National History Day” Just Nine Weeks Before It Is To Take Place
The president has stopped funding for National History Day just nine weeks before the event takes place. National History Day had already gotten contracts for…
Outcry Against National Park for Altering the History of the Underground Railroad Succeeds!
The outcry against the National Park Service over its altering of the history of the Underground Railroad on its website has succeeded, at least for…
NPS Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System Database No Longer Being Updated
The National Park Service has maintained a website for years where people can type in a name, typically of an ancestor, and get fairly good…
New Yorker on President Trump’s Take on History
David Remnick the editor of the New Yorker, has written an article on President Donald Trump’s assault on American history. This article appeared in the…
National Park Service Rewrites History of Underground Railroad (and it ain’t good)
The new administration has made a lot of changes in how the National Park Service (NPS), the military, and other agencies present American history. Today’s…
David Blight’s Response to Pres. Trump’s Executive Order on History and the Smithsonian
David Blight is a professor at Yale where he teaches Civil War and Reconstruction courses. He is the leading historian of the memory of the…
National Park Service Plans to Fire Over 1,000 Staff
According to a memo leaked to the press on Friday, National Park Service leadership briefed park superintendents on Thursday that 1,000 park personnel will be…