The Trump administration directed the National Park Service to remove exhibits on slavery and Native history, including the historic “Whipped Peter” photograph. Signs challenging Confederate myths and other materials are also under review or being removed. Critics call it erasure, warning that America cannot heal from wounds it refuses to confront.

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