# 2025-05838: Order Demands Proud History Over Shame in U.S. Museums and Schools

2025-05838, Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-04-03, effective 2025-03-27 (as of 2026-11-04).

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- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-05838
- Title: Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 14563
- Published: 2025-04-03
- Effective: 2025-03-27
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

Order Demands Proud History Over Shame in U.S. Museums and Schools

## Summary

This order stops efforts to twist American history into a negative story and brings back the true, proud facts about our country’s founding and achievements. It affects national parks, museums, and educators by changing how history is taught and displayed, starting right away with no extra cost to taxpayers. The goal? To unite Americans around a truthful, inspiring story of liberty and progress.

## Effects PRIA read

- Smithsonian Spending and Exhibit Limits: mixed, medium. The order directs the Vice President and OMB to work with Congress so future Smithsonian appropriations prohibit spending on exhibits or programs that "degrade shared American values" or "divide Americans based on race." It also directs that the American Women’s History Museum "celebrate the achiev…
- Independence Hall Infrastructure Upgrade: benefit, low. The Secretary of the Interior must provide sufficient funding, as available, to improve infrastructure at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, and the work is to be complete by July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. If you visit the park in Pennsyl…
- Reinstate and Review Federal Monuments: mixed, low. The Secretary of the Interior must determine whether, since January 1, 2020, public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties under Interior jurisdiction were removed or changed in ways that perpetuate a "false reconstruction of American history." The Secretary must, consistent…

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## Sources
- [2025-05838 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/03/2025-05838/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history)
- [2025-05838 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-04-03/pdf/2025-05838.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-05838 (as of 2026-11-04).