Independence National Historical Park Philadelphia

No Posting For About A Week, As Visiting Philadelphia To Celebrate SemiQuinCentennial Anniversary Of Declaration Of Independence!

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This author, scholar, and blogger will not be posting for about a week, as I will be visiting Philadelphia, where I have been before, but not for more than a decade, to celebrate the upcoming Semiquincentennial Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, officially taking place on July 4, 2026.

Among the sites to be visited are Independence National Historical Park, the Liberty Bell, the National Constitution Center, and the Museum of the American Revolution, but also other historic sites in a city, Philadelphia, much underrated as a great tourist city.

This author and blogger is well aware that a lot can happen, much of it likely regrettable, but upon return, commentary on events and personalities will resume.

Donald Trump On Mission To Wipe Out History And Science At National Parks And Historical Sites!

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The Washington Post has learned that the Interior Department under Doug Burgum is working to undermine and eliminate historical and scientific reality throughout the National Park System, as well as historical sites all over the nation.

The goal is to eliminate African American history, Indigenous history, women’s history, history of gay and lesbian Americans, and undermine scientific fact regarding climate change effect on the environment.

This horror has already occurred in Philadelphia, where an exhibit at Independence National Historical Park that had references to George Washington owning slaves was removed in January 2026 by order of the Donald Trump Administration, although then it was restored for the time being in February 2026, but with the issue still unresolved long term.

It also came about at Muir Woods National Monument in northern California in July 2025, where references to African Americans, women, and Indigenous Americans were removed, and John Muir’s racism was also removed.

National Park Rangers are resisting such actions, but the attack on facts and truth is in full swing, thereby promoting ignorance, fantasy, and denying reality of both the American past and the future of the scientific method.

Along with the federal government attack on museums and the arts, the goal clearly is brainwashing future generations, promoting a mythological view that would undermine the future advancement of the nation, and undermining what is taught and believed as fact in the nation’s classrooms.

Trump “War” On History, But The Truth Shall Survive Long Term!

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The history of slavery is part of the story of American history.

It is not a pleasant story, but it needs to be addressed.

In the era of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and since, historians and other scholars finally put the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about slavery and racism into the curriculum, long overdue.

But now, racist President Donald Trump has mandated the end of displaying and addressing the issue of slavery at national historic sites and monuments.

The outragous action to remove the display about slavery and George Washington at the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia is attempting to wipe out a sin that America has had since its beginning, which needs, continually, to be addressed.

This author and blogger in the summer of 2025 visited the Muir Woods National Monument in northern California, and shortly after, all references to the role of native Americans, women, and immigrant groups to the history of environmentalism, were also eliminated.

The cause of teaching and publishing and exposing all of the background, good and bad, of all aspects of American history, now must be doubled down on in resistance, through lawsuits and reversal of the hate filled intent of Donald Trump and his administration. The long range will see the triumph of truth!