ARLD Day 2026

Save Our Signs is a crowdsourced research project launched in response to the Trump administration issuing "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" an executive order that targets educational resources found in National Parks Service (NPS) sites across the country. We invite members of the public to visit NPS sites, engage with history, and take photos of interpretive signs to be preserved in a public archive. By early 2026, the government removed or censored over 50 signs at NPS sites. Censored topics range from history of slavery at Independence National Historical Park to the long history of Indigenous stewardship at Acadia National Park to climate change at Glacier National Park. In this session, we will describe how we used crowdsourcing, geospatial expertise, and cross-departmental collaboration to respond to this historic threat to information.