Many of these recently removed monuments remain in storage, but 19 of them have been given to pro-Confederate groups, who are free to put them back on display.

On July 1, Richmond, Va.’s, monument to Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson — which had towered above the city’s Monuments Avenue since 1919 — was taken down from its pedestal ...

Armed with a new legal directive arguing that presidents have the power to abolish national monuments created by their White House predecessors, President Donald Trump is expected to move to ...

Author of “Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America,” winner of the 2020 Tom Watson Brown Book Award by The Society of Civil War Historians and the Watson-Brown Foundation.

This wouldn't be the first time the Trump administration has taken a metaphorical axe to national monuments. In 2017, Trump ordered a review of more than 25 monuments with the goal of mining ...

READ: Text of House Bill 395 (Protection of Historical Monuments and Memorials) Officials who vote to remove a monument could be subject to a civil penalty of up to $5,000 or the cost to remove ...

While monuments have either been toppled by protesters or removed by municipalities across the South, Richmond – as expected due to its past as the C.S.A. capital – had many in prominent places.

President Joe Biden took a victory lap Tuesday as he touted sweeping new measures to conserve U.S. lands and waters, including the designation of two much-anticipated national monuments.

Devon Henry and his company have taken down 23 monuments in the South, including the infamous Robert E. Lee statue in Virginia, in part because few others were interested.