Court halts sanitization of U.S. history in national parks and orders restoration of exhibits

A federal judge in Massachusetts ordered the Trump administration to restore National Park Service exhibits altered under an executive order aimed at avoiding disparaging depictions of Americans, and to pause further changes while requiring weekly progress updates; plaintiffs say the changes erase accurate history—such as slavery and climate-change context—at sites including Independence National Historical Park, stressing that history should reflect all communities rather than be whitewashed.