2026年6月13日 美国东部时间下午12:56 / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：卡尼塔·艾耶
唐纳德·特朗普 特朗普法律案件
2024年8月8日，人们在怀俄明州大提顿国家公园的弦湖附近阅读信息标识。
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马萨诸塞州的一名联邦法官已下令特朗普政府恢复全美国家公园内所有根据去年唐纳德·特朗普总统有争议的指令被更改或移除的标识。
法官安杰尔·凯利在周五一份长达63页的严厉裁决中写道：“这届政府打着弘扬美国尊严的幌子，下令移除国家公园内所有不符合其偏好叙事的标识、展示和解说展品，以此宣扬片面历史，实则是在传播半真半假的信息。”
由总统乔·拜登任命的凯利下令，需在7月3日美国建国250周年纪念日前完成全部恢复工作。她在裁决中同时禁止特朗普政府再对国家公园的展品进行任何更改。
美国内政部发言人在给CNN的一份声明中批评凯利是“自由派激进法官”，并暗示该部门可能会对这一裁决提起上诉。
声明写道：“本部门将审视我们的上诉选项，本周末我们将在白宫南草坪庆祝‘UFC自由250’活动，以纪念我国建国250周年，同时致敬我国历史上最伟大的总统——唐纳德·J·特朗普总统。”
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周五的裁决是今年2月由环保主义者和维权人士联盟提起的诉讼的一部分，该联盟起诉内政部和国家公园管理局，指控政府“发起一场持续运动，旨在抹除历史、破坏科学”。
2025年3月，特朗普签署了一项题为《恢复美国历史的真相与理性》的行政命令，指示内政部对“不当贬低美国过往或当下民众”的公共内容“采取行动”。
根据该指令，追踪国家公园管理局展品变更的倡导组织“拯救我们的标识”称，至少有45个涉及气候变化到原住民历史等主题的标识被更改。
2025年10月24日，在宾夕法尼亚州费城独立国家历史公园，一个家庭正在阅读关于奴隶制的户外展览标识。
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在2月诉讼中被提及、并在周五裁决中被援引的一个案例显示，怀俄明州大提顿国家公园内一块指明19世纪探险家古斯塔夫斯·切尼·多恩参与屠杀至少173名皮埃甘黑脚族成员的标识被移除。
在南卡罗来纳州萨姆特堡国家纪念碑，一块详细阐述气候变化迫近影响的标识被全部移除，其中提到“海平面上升可能淹没堡垒大部分墙体，并淹没历史悠久的阅兵场”。
全国公园保护协会文化资源高级主任艾伦·斯皮尔斯是2月提起诉讼的团体之一，他对周五的裁决表示欢迎，告诉CNN这是“一件天大的好事”。
“我们认为法官的这一裁决是公正、有利且恰当的，至少暂时叫停了国家公园解说中对历史的美化、审查和弱化处理，”斯皮尔斯说。他补充道，该裁决将让国家公园游客“恢复常态，能够从国家公园及其提供的解说中了解完整的美国历史”。
斯皮尔斯进一步将国家公园描述为“美国历史和文化最大的管理方之一”。
他补充道：“因此，当你开始干预公园管理局能够提供的解说内容时，这就是一个问题。因为他们一直在其历史进程中，尤其是在过去30年里，致力于讲述更准确、更公正、更具包容性的故事，以便激励更多人关心我们的公园、关心这个国家的历史……并成为更好的土地守护者。”
凯利在裁决中同样强调了国家公园的教育作用，将其描述为“公共学习的基石”。
凯利写道：“国家公园常被称为‘美国最大的教室’，它们秉持这一理念，讲述着书写历史者和未被倾听者的故事。历史的魅力在于不加修饰地讲述逝去的时代，传递不容置疑的真相。”
她补充道：“因此，政府对这些公园遗址的管理责任在于完整呈现历史，而非只展示受青睐的片段。遗憾的是，政府无视了这些原则。”
Judge orders Trump administration to restore signs changed at national parks
2026-06-13 12:56 PM ET / CNN
By Kaanita Iyer
Donald Trump Trump legal cases
People read information signs near String Lake on August 8, 2024, in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
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A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the Trump administration to restore all signs that were changed or removed at national parks across the country as part of President Donald Trump’s controversial directive last year.
In a scathing 63-page ruling on Friday, Judge Angel Kelley wrote, “Under the guise of promoting American dignity, this Administration seeks to share a limited history by ordering the removal of all signs, displays, and interpretive exhibits at National Parks that do not align with its preferred narrative, thereby telling half-truths.”
Kelley, an appointee of President Joe Biden, ordered that the restoration be complete by July 3, ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday. In the ruling, she also blocked the Trump administration from making any further changes to exhibits at national parks.
An Interior Department spokesperson, in a statement to CNN, criticized Kelley as “a liberal activist judge” and suggested that the department could appeal the ruling.
“The Department will look at our appeal options while we celebrate UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House this weekend in honor of our nation’s 250th with the greatest president in the history of our country – President Donald J. Trump,” the statement read.
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Friday’s ruling comes as part of a lawsuit filed by coalition of conservationists and advocates in February against the Interior Department and the National Park Service that accused the administration of “mounting a sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science.”
In March 2025, Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which directed the Interior Department to “take action” against public content that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”
Under the directive, at least 45 signs that covered topics ranging from climate change to Native American history were altered, according to Save Our Signs, an advocacy group that tracks changes to NPS displays.
A family reads the signage about slavery on an outdoor exhibit at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 24, 2025.
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In one example cited in the February lawsuit and referred to in Friday’s ruling, a marker at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming that pointed out 19th century explorer Gustavus Cheyney Doane’s role in the massacre of at least 173 members of the Piegan Blackfeet was removed.
At South Carolina’s Fort Sumter National Monument, a sign that included details on the looming impacts of climate change, including information on how “rising seas could inundate most of the fort’s walls and flood the historic parade ground” was removed in its entirety.
Alan Spears, the senior director for cultural resources at the National Parks Conservation Association — one of the groups that filed the February lawsuit — celebrated Friday’s ruling, telling CNN it’s a “big damn deal.”
“This is, we think, a good, favorable, just ruling from the judge that puts a stop, at least temporarily, to the sanitization, censorship and softening of history as it’s told in our national parks,” Spears said. He added that the ruling would allow national park visitors to “go back to business as usual, which is getting the full scope of American history from our national parks and the interpretation that our parks provide.”
Spears went on to describe national parks as “one of the largest stewards of American history and culture in the country.”
“So when you start messing around with the kind of interpretation that the park service is able to provide, that’s a problem because they’ve been working throughout their history, but specifically over the last 30 years, to tell stories that are more accurate, more just, and more inclusive, so that we can inspire more people to care about our parks, to care about the history of this country … and to become better stewards of the land,” Spears added.
Kelley, in her ruling, similarly stressed the educational role of national parks, describing them as “a cornerstone of public learning.”
“Often referred to as ‘America’s largest classroom,’ National Parks serve in that spirit by telling the stories both of those who write history and those who go unheard,” Kelley wrote. “The beauty of history is the unvarnished storytelling of a time gone by and the delivery of undeniable truths.”
She added: “The Government’s stewardship of these park sites thus carries a responsibility to present history in full rather than in favored fragments. Unfortunately, the Government has disregarded these principles.”