SOS in the News

October 17, 2025:   Kansas Reflector, Save Our Signs releases its database of signs from national parks. Let’s hope we don’t need it.

October 17, 2025:   The Wild Line, Shutdown Chaos, Arctic Flooding, Pigeon River Restoration

October 15, 2025:   SEGD, Save Our Signs Launches the People’s Archive of National Park Signs 

October 15, 2025:   Philadelphia Inquirer, Hundreds of photos of exhibits at Independence Park have been preserved online amid Trump’s intent to sanitize history

October 14, 2025:   National Park Traveler, Online Archive That Seeks To Preserve National Park Signs Goes Public

October 14, 2025:   PhillyVoice, Volunteers are cataloging NPS markers targeted by Trump, including at Independence National Park

October 14, 2025:   404 Media, ‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs

October 13, 2025:  Library Journal's infoDOCKET, Digital Collections: Save Our Signs Archive Containing Over 10,000 Photos of National Park Service (NPS) Interpretive Materials Launches Online

October 2, 2025:  Grist, Why Trump’s purge of ‘negative’ national park signs includes climate change

September 30, 2025:  Hyperallergic, Documenting the History Trump Wants to Erase

September 27, 2025:  AsAmNews, National park sign referencing Japanese incarceration removed

September 25, 2025:  SFGATE, Historians hurriedly photograph national park signs at risk of removal

September 25, 2025:  E&E News by Politico, Signs about climate change axed at national parks

September 23, 2025:  Outside, Signs Referencing Climate Change, Slavery, and Other ‘Improper’ Topics Removed from National Park Sites

September 17, 2025:  6abc Studios (WPVI), Fears for Independence Mall as Trump orders removal of displays that 'disparage' American history

September 17, 2025:  NPR - Morning Edition, National Parks removing historical items Trump administration found 'disparaged' U.S.

September 7, 2025: Times-Picayune New Orleans, This Louisiana national park tells a story of slavery that some fear will be erased

September 5, 2025: Kansas Reflector, Kansans can help document national park histories before they’re erased

August 31, 2025:  National Parks Traveler, Save Our Signs Campaign Has Amassed Nearly 5,000 Photos Of National Park Signs

August 13, 2025:  NPR/WBUR - Here & Now, Historians, curators say sign and exhibit removal at historical sites erases history

August 12, 2025:  Austin Chronicle, Defending Our History:  Resistance begins to spread – here’s another effort to fight back

August 10, 2025:  6abc Studios (WPVI), Inside Story, August 10, 2025

August 5, 2025:   Minnesota Star Tribune, Some Ojibwe signs, books could be removed as feds evaluate national parks 

August 4, 2025:  The Show, KJZZ Phoenix:  These librarians and historians say Trump is trying to rewrite history by targeting historic signs

August 1, 2025:  Philadelphia Inquirer, Inside the fight to save more than a dozen Independence Park exhibits from potential Trump admin removal in September

July 30, 2025:  The Contrarian, The quiet purge at our national parks

July 25, 2025:  Adam & Jordana Show on WCCO Radio, A group from the U of M wants to save National Park signs from Trump policy

July 25, 2025:  Minnesota Reformer, Coming soon: MAGA’s version of American history at national parks

July 25, 2025:  Washington Post, Park gift shops could remove books on slavery and the Civil War

July 25, 2025:  Arkansas Times, Librarians catalogue Trumpian efforts to censor National Park exhibits

July 23, 2025:  SEGD, When Public Memory Is Under Threat, Designers Must Lead

July 22, 2025:  New York Times, Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged

July 22, 2025:  National Parks Traveler, Group Works To Archive National Parks Signs Before They Disappear

July 18, 2025:  Minnesota Star Tribune, Brooks: Minnesota archivists scramble to document national park signs before they’re gone

July 11, 2025:  The Wild Line, Oil Train Rolls in Utah, Merkley Asks for Wildfire Funds, Trump Targets Park History

July 8, 2025:  404 Media, Save Our Signs' Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It