The Trump administration on July 15 put up new information panels on slavery at President George Washington’s Philadelphia home, part of a broader effort to revise displays it says present a distorted view of U.S. history.
The changes are part of a nationwide sweep under a March 2025 executive order that currently directs federal agencies to remove museum and park displays, which the administration says will reverse a “widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history.”
Washington and First Lady Martha Washington lived at the President’s House with slaves as the first president guided the nation’s formation. Philadelphia was the temporary U.S. capital at the time and the site where the Declaration of Independence was adopted at Independence Hall on July 4, 1776….