History, Sanitized, Coming to a National Park Near You

Reporting cited here

1. reported

   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; it is PEN America's characterization, 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.