John Swain

Was the government looking at places online where the government wrote about American history and possibly making any changes there? And so we went looking, really, for places online where the federal government writes about American history.

It wasn't really what the Marines at Iwo Jima did. We all know the image of them hoisting the flag, the U.S. flag, as a sort of emblem of the victory in the Second World War.

It wasn't really what the Marines at Iwo Jima did. We all know the image of them hoisting the flag, the U.S. flag, as a sort of emblem of the victory in the Second World War.

It wasn't really what the Marines at Iwo Jima did. We all know the image of them hoisting the flag, the U.S. flag, as a sort of emblem of the victory in the Second World War.

One of the Marines was a Pima Indian. His name was Ira Hayes. And a page on the Defense Department's website celebrated the fact that he had been a Native American and that he had taken part in this sort of emblematic, iconic moment in U.S. military history. And it was just a page that talked about his life. You know, his life actually had ended quite sadly.

One of the Marines was a Pima Indian. His name was Ira Hayes. And a page on the Defense Department's website celebrated the fact that he had been a Native American and that he had taken part in this sort of emblematic, iconic moment in U.S. military history. And it was just a page that talked about his life. You know, his life actually had ended quite sadly.

One of the Marines was a Pima Indian. His name was Ira Hayes. And a page on the Defense Department's website celebrated the fact that he had been a Native American and that he had taken part in this sort of emblematic, iconic moment in U.S. military history. And it was just a page that talked about his life. You know, his life actually had ended quite sadly.

He wasn't really supported after the war and he had problems with alcohol and he died relatively young without a family. But this page was just a sort of small tribute to the small role he played in a big part of American history. And it was just taken down because it had focused on his ethnicity, basically.

He wasn't really supported after the war and he had problems with alcohol and he died relatively young without a family. But this page was just a sort of small tribute to the small role he played in a big part of American history. And it was just taken down because it had focused on his ethnicity, basically.

He wasn't really supported after the war and he had problems with alcohol and he died relatively young without a family. But this page was just a sort of small tribute to the small role he played in a big part of American history. And it was just taken down because it had focused on his ethnicity, basically.

So when we turned our attention to the National Park Service, we found quite quickly, actually, that several themes kept coming up. Pages that dealt with women's rights, pages that dealt with civil rights and the sort of struggle for racial equality in the 20th century, and pages that looked at the Civil War and even earlier, sometimes the founding and the Revolutionary War,

So when we turned our attention to the National Park Service, we found quite quickly, actually, that several themes kept coming up. Pages that dealt with women's rights, pages that dealt with civil rights and the sort of struggle for racial equality in the 20th century, and pages that looked at the Civil War and even earlier, sometimes the founding and the Revolutionary War,

So when we turned our attention to the National Park Service, we found quite quickly, actually, that several themes kept coming up. Pages that dealt with women's rights, pages that dealt with civil rights and the sort of struggle for racial equality in the 20th century, and pages that looked at the Civil War and even earlier, sometimes the founding and the Revolutionary War,

and slavery around that time in the 18th and 19th centuries, there were changes being made.

and slavery around that time in the 18th and 19th centuries, there were changes being made.

and slavery around that time in the 18th and 19th centuries, there were changes being made.

And we noticed that in the most part, they were going one way, which was to soften the accounts and to remove some of the references to enslavement, to slaves, to the pursuit of equality by civil rights advocates, and to remove mentions of some of the struggles that women in the Park Service, for example, had had when they were working there.

And we noticed that in the most part, they were going one way, which was to soften the accounts and to remove some of the references to enslavement, to slaves, to the pursuit of equality by civil rights advocates, and to remove mentions of some of the struggles that women in the Park Service, for example, had had when they were working there.

And we noticed that in the most part, they were going one way, which was to soften the accounts and to remove some of the references to enslavement, to slaves, to the pursuit of equality by civil rights advocates, and to remove mentions of some of the struggles that women in the Park Service, for example, had had when they were working there.

One of the cases that really leapt out was the Little Rock Nine. So people may remember in the 1950s, nine brave young African-American students walked through an angry mob to integrate their high school in Arkansas.