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Materson 'Mat' Bransford
Coverage of Materson 'Mat' Bransford in the Nexus archive.
- ‘A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks
Critics argue the Trump administration is erasing and altering historical records in national parks by removing signs. The article highlights the case of Mammoth Cave, where Materson 'Mat' Bransford, an enslaved person, was exploited for his work exploring the cave, which later became a national park.