Court says the US can install historical panels at the site of Washington’s Philadelphia home
The ruling finalizes a June decision and lets new National Park Service language replace an exhibit on nine enslaved people.
- On Friday, an Appeals court ruled that President Donald Trump's administration can reinstall interpretive Panels at the site of President George Washington's home in Philadelphia.
- President Trump's 2025 executive order required historic sites to avoid information that might "disparage Americans past or living" and emphasize national achievements, prompting the original panel removal.
- A three-judge Circuit of Appeals panel reversed the lower court's decision; the administration's new Panels also discuss slavery, according to court filings, despite Philadelphia's objections about the House Site's historical importance.
- Seeking to delay installation, The City of Philadelphia filed an emergency request Friday asking the Appeals court to recall its order and allow time for the city to respond to Thursday's administration request.
- Located near where the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776, the House Site remains a focal point for federal-local collaboration to tell a historically significant story.
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Court Lets Administration Put Up Its Slavery Display
The Trump administration won a legal victory Friday in its attempt to swap out panels telling the story of slavery at George Washington's home in Philadelphia with its own historical interpretations in time for the Fourth of July weekend. A federal appeals court issued a mandate allowing the Interior Department...
Slave exhibit at George Washington’s Philly home can be replaced: Court
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia certified on Friday that the Interior Department can reinstall the Trump administration’s interpretive signs at George Washington’s house in the colonial city. The Interior Department can now revamp the exhibit outside Washington’s Philadelphia home from one about slavery under Washington to one that includes new educational panels with less discussion of slavery. The appeals court’s move finalized and all…
Appeals Court Allows Slavery History Revisions
“An appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration can reinstall interpretive panels that critics say whitewash the history of slavery at the site of President George Washington’s home in Philadelphia,” the Associated Press reports.
A court of appeal ruled on Friday that US President Donald Trump's administration could reinstall his explanatory signs on the site of President George Washington's house in Philadelphia.
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Court says the US can install historical panels at the site of Washington’s Philadelphia home
An appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration can reinstall its interpretive panels at the site of President George Washington's home in Philadelphia.
Trump administration's interpretation of slavery under George Washington can be reinstalled
A federal court has given President Donald Trump's administration permission to reinstall interpretive panels that critics say whitewash the history of slavery at the site of President George Washington's home in Philadelphia.
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