Trump's executive order takes aim at 21 years of proclamations beginning in 1996. That time frame encompasses the "bookends" of two of the most controversial national monument designations in ...

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 ...

New Orleans is the latest city to start taking down historical but controversial monuments that many say celebrate slavery and the Confederacy. Angry opponents see the move as suppressing or ...

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.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the first spike in Confederate symbols is around the turn of the 20th century and the second spike is in the mid-1950s and 1960s during the height of ...

People, and countries, put up monuments to display what they think of history and of themselves. They tear down monuments for the same reason. A torn-down monument is, therefore, itself a monument ...

Here’s an email from a reader: As for Confederate monuments, they were erected with the full knowledge (and presumed approval) of the US government at the time. Now you want to pull them all down.

Hayter is in complete agreement with that view of what the monuments represent, but he notes that, when Baltimore and New Orleans took down their Confederate statues, it did not really change ...

Monuments, described by historian Cynthia Mills as "messengers from the past," also play a special role in weaving stories of national identity. They help us come to know ourselves as a national ...