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Trump Bans ‘Negative’ Signage at National Parks, Asks Visitors to Snitch on Unpatriotic Text
- On March 27, 2025, an executive order entitled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" was signed by Donald Trump, instructing federal agencies to remove signs and materials at national parks that portray America in a negative light.
- This order followed concerns that previous administrations had promoted a revisionist movement casting American history in a negative light, prompting the National Park Service to sanitize or whitewash historic narratives.
- As part of the directive, national parks like Amache and Sand Creek Massacre sites in Colorado posted signs urging visitors to report 'negative' messages, accompanied by QR codes collecting feedback on historical content and park services.
- Critics cautioned that removing difficult aspects of history from these sites could prevent society from understanding past errors, with Ms. Pierno emphasizing that forgetting such events hinders learning from them. Meanwhile, park advocates described the actions as Orwellian and detrimental to preserving honest historical narratives.
- The order’s implementation has raised concerns that it might lead to shrinking federal oversight of smaller historic sites, potentially returning them to state control and diminishing diverse historical narratives.
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Trump bans ‘negative’ signage at national parks, asks visitors to snitch on unpatriotic text
It's part of Trump's ongoing war against "woke."
Trump bans 'negative' signage at national parks, asks visitors to snitch on unpatriotic text
Trump's directive banning signage he would deem unpatriotic has left free speech advocates in disbelief, wondering how park employees will put a sunny spin on monuments acknowledging slavery, internment and other dark chapters.
Rosie the Riveter park posts Trump-required sign asking visitors to report "negative" exhibits
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Visitors to Colorado historic sites urged to report ‘negative’ information about America, per order
National parks and historic sites, including two prominent Colorado sites whose stories involve darker chapters in American history, have been directed by the Trump administration to post signs asking...
Visitors to Colorado historic sites urged to report “negative” information about America, per order
National parks and historic sites, including two prominent Colorado sites whose stories involve darker chapters in American history, have been directed by the Trump administration to post signs asking visitors to report historical information “negative about either past or living Americans,” triggering concerns that difficult narratives could be sanitized. The signs went up on Friday at both the Amache site near the southeastern town of Granada …
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