What’s changed in the 120 days since National Parks were ordered to remove ‘negative’ content about America?

EADS, Colo. (KOAA) — On May 20, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum ordered all public land bureaus , including the National Park Service (NPS), to remove content that “inappropriately disparage[s] Americans past or living.”

That directive came in response to President Trump issuing an initial Executive Order in March titled “Restoring Truth And Sanity To American History,” an effort to push a more positive view of U.S. history.

The orders triggered backlash across the country as National Park and history advocates voiced concern it would bring about a whitewashing and revisionist history.

The darker chapters of the United States, such as slavery and, in Colorado, the Sand Creek Massacre and Amache Japanese incarceration camp sites appeared at risk of alteration.

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