SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Since March, employees at national parks, under orders from President Trump, have been told to cover up or remove any content that might inappropriately disparage Americans.

But would this provide a more accurate account of history, or a sanitized version of it?

The emotion can be visceral when you view the unforgiving landscape Africans crossed to escape the tortures of slavery.

In 2004, the Great Dismal Swamp was designated a landmark on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, but the stories of pain and determination could soon vanish under that presidential directive.

"The Trump Administration seems bent on ensuring that only history that does not make some White people feel uncomfortable about what our country did to them in the past is not told

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