Three quotes will be removed from the Bunker Hill Lodge at Boston National Historical Park after a visitor flagged a quote related to women’s suffrage. While the flagged quote has not been ordered for removal, the National Park Service will take down quotes related to slavery, war, and immigration.
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., posted about the removals on X, writing, "Congress must not fund Trump's campaign of censorship.” He included pictures of the three quotes slated for removal.
One quote from William Monroe Trotter states, “Colored Americans were here that day fighting with other patriots, our own ancestors, of whom we are justly proud and on whom we base our claim for full liberty and equality as citizens.” The quote was part of Trotter’s Bunker Hill Day Address in 1925.
“As we celebrate MA250 and America250, it is a disgrace that President Trump is attempting to erase voices and perspectives from one of our nation's most important historic sites,” said Gov. Maura Healey of Massachusetts in response to the removals. “That's not preserving history. That's censoring it.”
The removal is the latest in a series of edits to national park signage and information related to President Trump’s March 2025 executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which ordered the removal of any signage or interpretive information that “contain descriptions, depictions, or other content that inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
As part of the executive order, Park Service staff were required to review information at their respective parks, but visitors to national parks have also been encouraged to flag signs and information that they would like Interior to review and potentially remove.
In response to criticism of the removals at Bunker Hill, a spokesperson from the Interior Department told a local news site that "[e]fforts to transform a routine exhibit refresh into a story attacking President Trump and this administration is tired and the American people see through it.”
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