The National Park Service has removed at least 51 exhibits from 38 sites to carry out President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting displays that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living,” a court-ordered inventory showed.

The examples revealed in a Trump administration filing on Wednesday span a variety of national parks and monuments including Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical ‌Park, where an exhibit describing the ownership of enslaved people by George Washington, the first U.S. president, was ​removed.

The administration turned over the list at the direction of Boston-based U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley, who ruled on Friday that the government was engaging in an unlawful effort to “rewrite the ⁠nation’s history with a white-out pen.”

Kelley’s ruling came in a challenge to the administration’s actions by groups ​representing national park conservationists, historians, and scientists. They accused the administration of violating laws governing National Park Service actions.

The administration ⁠in another filing called the judge’s order requiring it to reinstall the exhibits by July 3, the day before the country marks the 250th anniversary of its founding, a “herculean and unmanageable task.”

It asked for the order to be put on hold while the administration appeals her decision blocking ‌Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s implementation of the president’s March 2025 directive.

Trump’s order targeted what he called ​a “revisionist movement” that portrayed ‌the United States as “inherently racist, sexist, oppressive or otherwise irredeemably flawed,” and directed the Interior Department to make changes to parks nationwide.

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