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Philadelphia’s History Rewritten | Philadelphia News
Philadelphia’s historic President’s House is at the center of a heated national debate after the Trump administration replaced a powerful 2010 exhibit on slavery with a sanitized version, sparking outrage from historians, the mayor, and local officials. The original display honored the lives of nine enslaved people who lived with the Washingtons, while the new exhibit, approved by an appeals court, omits key details like slave trade maps and critical headlines, despite claiming to acknowledge injustice. This move reflects a broader federal effort to reframe history through a lens of…
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