A Confederate statue is restored as part of Trump's efforts to reshape how history is told

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A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike has been reinstalled in a park near the headquarters of the Department of Labor, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has restored a memorial to a Confederate general in Washington, D.C. that demonstrators took down during racial justice protests in the summer of 2020, part of a broader effort by the president to reshape the way the country's history is told.

The statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general and diplomat who later served on the Arkansas Supreme Court, is the only outdoor statue of a Confederate leader in the nation’s capital. It has been contentious since it was first placed in 1901.

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