Workers began restoring the exhibit Thursday after a judge’s order to return, despite a Trump administration appeal.

A federal judge has ordered the Department of the Interior to immediately restore slavery exhibits at the President’s House site in Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park.

Displays about slavery at the President's House​ in Old City were being restored nearly a month after they were removed by order of the Trump administration.

Slavery exhibit removed by Trump administration returns to Philadelphia’s Independence Mall after judge’s order - The Trump administration is appealing the decision restoring the exhibit about history

A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump's administration to return an exhibit on slavery to Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park.

The Trump administration said Tuesday it plans to appeal the judge's earlier ruling ordering the park service to restore the exhibit.

Workers restored a slavery exhibit at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia on Thursday. The National Park Service had removed the panels in January after an executive order from President Donald Trump.

A federal judge, evoking the dystopian world of George Orwell’s novel “1984,” ordered the Trump administration on Monday to return a long-standing exhibit on slavery it removed from a popular historical museum in Philadelphia.

Around 3 p.m. Thursday, an Independence Park employee who would not give his name told an Inquirer reporter that his supervisor had instructed him to take down all the displays at the iconic site earlier that day.

Martha Washington's enslaved maid fled Philadelphia in 1796. The National Park Service removed her story from the exhibit.

For the past few weeks, the Presidents House in Independence Mall has been the epicenter of a firestorm focused on learning lessons from the past and just what federal agencies under the Trump Administration would do to keep new generations from learning those lessons.