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History, Sanitized, Coming to a National Park Near You

This authoritative-secondary source from PEN America supports 1 claim across 1 ledger entry.

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PEN America
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2026-09-03
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  1. analysisreported

    PEN America documents the order-driven review of Smithsonian and National Park content involving slavery, Native history, race, gender, and LGBTQ subjects and analyzes it as government pressure to sanitize history; that characterization is free-expression analysis, not a judicial finding.

    Smithsonian and National Park review chronology and examples of targeted subject matter

    Smithsonian review put elected officials over museum narratives about race and national history · Institutional review and exhibit scrutiny proceeded; no cited court judgment resolved the order. · reviewed 2026-09-03