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Workers remove display panels about slavery at the President’s House site in Independence National Historical Park Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. The fate of exhibits at the site, which serves as a memorial to the nine people George Washington enslaved there during the founding of America, had been in limbo since President Trump’s executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," directed the Department of the Interior to review over 400 national sites to remove or modify interpretive materials that "inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”

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Trump administration must restore slavery exhibits at President’s House site in Philadelphia, federal judge orders

February 17, 2026

A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to restore the slavery exhibits that the National Park Service…