National Park Service staff on Thursday took down an exhibit on slavery at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, which had been targeted last year by President Donald Trump in an executive order on “restoring truth and sanity to American history.”
The exhibit was at the President’s House Site, where George Washington lived as president. The informational panels discussed Washington’s ownership of enslaved people, as well as the broader history of slavery, and included details about their lives.
Separately, Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts has stopped showing a pair of films that included information on labor history. A park staffer who answered the phone at Lowell said the films had been removed to ensure compliance with the Interior Secretary’s order implementing Trump’s executive order. Read more at WashingtonPost.com