The displays referring to Washington's ownership of enslaved people were removed by the Trump administration.

A federal judge denied the Trump administration’s request to delay a Friday deadline to restore a George Washington slavery exhibit in Philadelphia.

John Garrison Marks, a historian and ​the author of Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory, had hoped that America’s anniversary would be an opportunity to “establish a more complete, more inclusive and more widely shared understanding of the nation’s history,” including the history of slavery.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yet for all their intensity, today’s arguments about Washington are hardly new. In fact, disputes over how to acknowledge our first president’s relationship with slavery are as old ...

The Trump administration took down displays about slavery at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia