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\n A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the Trump administration to restore all signs that were changed or removed at national parks across the country as part of President Donald Trump\u2019s controversial directive last year.\n <\/p>

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\n In a scathing on Friday, Judge Angel Kelley wrote, \u201cUnder the guise of promoting American dignity, this Administration seeks to share a limited history by ordering the removal of all signs, displays, and interpretive exhibits at National Parks that do not align with its preferred narrative, thereby telling half-truths.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Kelley, an appointee of President Joe Biden, ordered that the restoration be complete by July 3, ahead of the nation\u2019s 250th birthday. In the ruling, she also blocked the Trump administration from making any further changes to exhibits at national parks.\n <\/p>\n

\n An Interior Department spokesperson, in a statement to CNN, criticized Kelley as \u201ca liberal activist judge\u201d and suggested that the department could appeal the ruling.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe Department will look at our appeal options while we celebrate UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House this weekend in honor of our nation\u2019s 250th with the greatest president in the history of our country – President Donald J. Trump,\u201d the statement read.\n <\/p>\n

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\n\u2018We are killing them all over again\u2019: Critics say history is being erased as Trump reshapes narratives at national parks<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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\n Friday\u2019s ruling comes as part of a lawsuit filed by coalition of conservationists and advocates in February against the Interior Department and the National Park Service that accused the administration of \u201cmounting a sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In March 2025, Trump signed an executive order titled \u201cRestoring Truth and Sanity to American History,\u201d which directed the Interior Department to \u201ctake action\u201d against public content that \u201cinappropriately disparage Americans past or living.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Under the directive, at least 45 signs that covered topics ranging from climate change to Native American history were altered, according to Save Our Signs, an advocacy group that tracks changes to NPS displays.\n <\/p>\n

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\n In one example cited in the February lawsuit and referred to in Friday\u2019s ruling, a marker at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming that pointed out 19th century explorer Gustavus Cheyney Doane\u2019s role in the massacre of at least 173 members of the Piegan Blackfeet was removed.\n <\/p>

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\n At South Carolina\u2019s Fort Sumter National Monument, a sign that included details on the looming impacts of climate change, including information on how \u201crising seas could inundate most of the fort\u2019s walls and flood the historic parade ground\u201d was removed in its entirety.\n <\/p>\n

\n Alan Spears, the senior director for cultural resources at the National Parks Conservation Association \u2014 one of the groups that filed the February lawsuit \u2014 celebrated Friday\u2019s ruling, telling CNN it\u2019s a \u201cbig damn deal.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThis is, we think, a good, favorable, just ruling from the judge that puts a stop, at least temporarily, to the sanitization, censorship and softening of history as it\u2019s told in our national parks,\u201d Spears said. He added that the ruling would allow national park visitors to \u201cgo back to business as usual, which is getting the full scope of American history from our national parks and the interpretation that our parks provide.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Spears went on to describe national parks as \u201cone of the largest stewards of American history and culture in the country.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cSo when you start messing around with the kind of interpretation that the park service is able to provide, that\u2019s a problem because they\u2019ve been working throughout their history, but specifically over the last 30 years, to tell stories that are more accurate, more just, and more inclusive, so that we can inspire more people to care about our parks, to care about the history of this country \u2026 and to become better stewards of the land,\u201d Spears added.\n <\/p>\n

\n Kelley, in her ruling, similarly stressed the educational role of national parks, describing them as \u201ca cornerstone of public learning.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cOften referred to as \u2018America\u2019s largest classroom,\u2019 National Parks serve in that spirit by telling the stories both of those who write history and those who go unheard,\u201d Kelley wrote. \u201cThe beauty of history is the unvarnished storytelling of a time gone by and the delivery of undeniable truths.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n She added: \u201cThe Government\u2019s stewardship of these park sites thus carries a responsibility to present history in full rather than in favored fragments. Unfortunately, the Government has disregarded these principles.\u201d\n <\/p>

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