Since then, Trump’s people have tried to rewrite American history according to their ideology. On December 18, 2025, they wrote to Bunch again to complain he had not provided as much information as they had requested. But a funny thing happened on the way to the erasure of American history in favor of a whitewashed authoritarianism. Volunteers worried at the potential loss of National Park Service information created the Save Our Signs project, a crowd-sourced archive of photographs from National Parks. Historians appalled by changes to the Smithsonian created Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, similarly documenting changes to the Smithsonian.

Source: New York Times March 29, 2026 08:01 UTC