National sovereignty is a phrase that before President Donald Trump brought it into question with headline-grabbing shenanigans on Venezuela, Iran and Greenland among other places was seldom heard ...

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides receives funding from the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Michael B. Charles does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid. Ziggurats were common in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq) from around 4,000 ...

An exhibit about slavery outside Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, shown here in Oct. 2025, was removed by the National Park Service on Jan. 22, 2026.Michael Yanow—NurPhoto via ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday filed a legal document in support of the City of Philadelphia's lawsuit against the Trump administration over the removal of the slavery exhibit that was ...

The National Park Service has removed an exhibit about slavery at the President’s House memorial in Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia. The move came after President Donald Trump ...

The city of Philadelphia sued the Department of the Interior and the acting director of the National Park Service on Thursday over reports that slavery exhibits were being dismantled in the city’s ...

The exhibit memorialized nine people enslaved by George Washington. The Park Service said it was being removed in accordance with a directive from President Trump. By Ashley Ahn The National Park ...

The exhibits on slavery at the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia (all images courtesy Save Our Signs) The city of Philadelphia is suing the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the ...

A series of informational signs about slavery was removed Thursday from the President's House in Old City Philadelphia, a historic site operated by the National Park Service. Before the President's ...

The City of Philadelphia is suing the Trump administration after the National Park Service removed a long-standing exhibit on slavery in the city’s Independence National Historical Park. The lawsuit, ...

PHILADELPHIA -- The National Park Service began removing a slavery memorial at the President's House in Philadelphia on Thursday afternoon -- an exhibit that opened in 2010 and honored the lives of ...