The Trump administration wants to scrub national park history. Meet the librarians preserving it anyway

National park signs on women, LGBTQ+ history are disappearing. Librarians are preserving the record

Muir Woods rangers discuss different historical narratives with a student group. (Jace Ritchey/National Park Service) This story was originally reported by Jessica Kutz of The 19th. Meet Jessica and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. Jenny McBurney, a librarian specializing in government publications, was in Washington, D.C., in June when she heard the news that the Department of Interior, the agency responsible for ove…

The Trump administration wants to scrub national park history. Meet the librarians preserving it anyway

The revisions have scrubbed or softened accounts of violence, slavery, activism and lived experiences, raising questions about whose stories the government considers worth telling.