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On March 27, 2025, in an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Donald Trump complained of a “widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.” He directed the interior secretary to “determine” if “public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties” of the government had been “changed to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology.” He demanded our national parks remove “descripti

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