Sep 28, 2025
Nearly 700 volunteers, including some from as far away as Japan, descended on the Appalachian Trail in the past year in an unprecedented effort to recover a landscape forever scarred by Hurricane Helene.
The storm in September 2024 shut down 431 miles of the AT. Trees were snapped in half, piled in what looked like...
Sep 21, 2025
This past week unspecified interpretive materials related to slavery were either removed or tagged for removal from Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia. It also was reported that a troubling photo known as the “Scourged Back” that depicted the scar-riddled back of an enslaved man was taken...
Sep 14, 2025
We can’t escape history. We’re born into a world full of it, and we’re making it as we go from day to day. But how are we at preserving history?
There’s been a lot of concern this year that the administration of President Donald Trump is altering, if not entirely trying to erase, history. But can that actually...
Sep 7, 2025
We’ve made it past Labor Day. Which means fall colors in some parts of the country aren’t too far off, seasonal wildlife migrations are getting under way, and summertime crowds in the national park system have thinned out.
Fall is a glorious time to be out in the park system. The question right now, though, is how...