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Hours after the Trump administration removed an exhibit about the enslaved people who lived in President George Washington's household at Independence National Historical Park, the city of Philadelphia sued Interior Secretary Doug Burgum for violating an agreement that requires the Interior department to confer with the city before making changes to any exhibit at the site.
The removed exhibit, titled "The Dirty Business of Slavery," included biographical information about the nine people enslaved by George and Martha Washington. Now only their names remain engraved onto a wall at the site.
"Trying to hide the nation’s history of slavery has never worked," Historian John Garrison told the Philadelphia Inquirer. "We’ve been trying it over and over again throughout American history, but there have always been other people who insist that we reckon with this past, that we face it head on, that we include the full story so we can learn from it."
The New York Times also reported last week on the removal of a sign at Fort Sumter in South Carolina that detailed the threats that climate change pose to the site, which could be largely underwater by the end of the century. The Trump administration has also removed historical or scientific signs and films at Muir Woods National Monument in California and Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts.
Why a New Mexico gun rights leader opposes Trump's BLM nominee
In the latest episode of CWP's podcast, The Landscape, Kate and Aaron talk to Zachary Fort, president of the New Mexico Shooting Sports Association, about his opposition to Steve Pearce’s nomination to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Fort discusses Pearce’s history of sponsoring legislation to sell off national public lands and his prioritization of oil and gas interests over public access. Fort argues that Pearce’s support for transferring public lands to private ownership threatens hunting and shooting opportunities that generations of New Mexicans have relied on. Listen now on Apple Podcasts or westernpriorities.org.
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In short, Coalie has been handed an impossible job. Ironically, if any mascot could succinctly sum up the Trump administration’s asinine insistence on a fossil fuel comeback, it would be a shoddily slapped together illustration of a lump of coal.”
