From Pennsylvania to Montana, the White House\u2019s war on \u2018woke\u2019 has targeted US monuments that address topics like racism and Indigenous history<\/p>\n
Blank spaces now exist where a series of panels about enslavement<\/a> once appeared on the walls of the President\u2019s House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The site, which honors the home of George Washington and John Adams, is a major landmark that bore artwork and informational signs for more than a decade. But on 22 January, National Park Service (NPS) workers used hand tools<\/a> to pry off 34 panels<\/a> to comply with a presidential executive order designed to reframe the national narrative. The panels that highlighted the lives of people enslaved by George Washington when Philadelphia was the US capital in the 1790s are now in storage.<\/p>\n The removal is one of several across the nation, as NPS staff aim to conform with Trump\u2019s executive order<\/a> \u201cRestoring Truth and Sanity to American History\u201d issued on 27 March 2025. Public markers, monuments and statues that the Trump administration considers disparaging to past or current Americans have been flagged<\/a> at more than a dozen parks. Two exhibits<\/a> at Montana\u2019s Little Bighorn battlefield national monument that discuss Indigenous history and the Battle of the Little Bighorn have been targeted and deemed noncompliant. Additionally, signage about climate change at Muir Woods national monument in California<\/a> and visitor brochures at Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home national monument in Mississippi that referred to Medgar Evers\u2019s killer as racist<\/a> were also removed.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Pennsylvania to Montana, the White House\u2019s war on \u2018woke\u2019 has targeted US monuments that address topics like racism and Indigenous history Blank spaces now exist where a series of panels about enslavement once appeared on the walls of the President\u2019s House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The site, which honors the home of George Washington and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}