In the last decade, at least 20 states have passed laws or policies that restrict how history can be taught in schools.

Since taking office in January, President Trump has pushed even further, with executive orders that aim to reshape how U.S. history is presented, not only in classrooms, but in some of the nation's most famous museums.

Paul Salman reports for our series, Art in Action. The graduating classes remained almost 100% white until

1969. For eighth-grade, Julia Jones, U.S. history.

They're like, well, it wasn't Brown to be bored in 1954? That doesn't seem right.

Classes at her own Richmond, Virginia Middle School.

When the 1970s school year started, there were about 5,000 white students who never came back.

Jones was competing in National History Day in College Park, Maryland, one of some 3,000 students from around the country.

In school, we often learned that, you know, after 1954, you know, now schools were integrated.

Now black and white students could learn together and it's a big victory.

But then when you learn this history, you realize that really wasn't the case.

Students picked their own topics, drafting the Declaration of Independence, the evolution

of labor unions, Japanese internment camps during World War II.

We are telling the kids that you have to look at all the angles and you have to back

up what you're saying with evidence.

Kathy Gorn Run's National History Day held every year since 1974.

You guys pick me a winner?

But this year's different, after federal cuts hit home in April.

We had two grants, and the total amount we lost was $336,000, right in the middle of everything.

The grants were among more than a thousand terminated at the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Private donors bailed out this year's competition, but the cloud hovers.

Our teachers in some areas are being told that they can't teach certain subject areas.

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