Trump’s Twilight Zone: The National Park Service Just Became the Smithsonian’s Warning Label

Photo: National Museum of American History – Kenneth E. Behring Center, originally Museum of History and Technology, 1958–1964, James Kellum Smith & Walker O. Cain for McKim, Mead & White Architects, National Mall, Washington, D.C. Apr. 2014. Photo credit: Gunnar Klack via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 (no modifications). Article by Kevin M. Levin. Substack: Civil War Memory – July 26, 2026.

As many of you now know, President Trump signed an executive order on Friday calling for the placement of warning signs near the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The signs will notify visitors that the museum’s exhibits, in the administration’s view, “cannot be trusted to tell America’s story with honesty and gratitude.” […]

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