Park Service History Rewrite Stalls in a Bureaucratic Slog
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The Trump-era push to purge or rewrite park exhibits deemed to disparage history has bogged down into a months-long, chaotic process: hundreds of items flagged across parks, a dissolved review team, staffing shortages, and unclear guidance, with some changes made (like removing the slavery exhibit in Philadelphia) but most sites still awaiting decisions.
Topics:nation#doug-burgum#history-revision#interior-department#national-park-service#politics#slavery
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