‘So shameful’: backlash as US national monuments conform to Trump’s rewrite of history

Photo: “Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation” exhibit panel at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 24, 2022. Photo credit: Kreuz und quer via Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0. Article by Melissa Hellmann. The Guardian – February 10, 2026.

Blank spaces now exist where a series of panels about enslavement once appeared on the walls of the President’s House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The site, which honors the home of George Washington and John Adams, is a major landmark that bore artwork and informational signs for more than a decade. But on 22 January, National Park Service (NPS) workers used hand tools to pry off 34 panels to comply with a presidential executive order designed to reframe the national narrative. The panels that highlighted the lives of people enslaved by George Washington when Philadelphia was the US capital in the 1790s are now in storage. […]

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