The Beacon of Freedom rises 47 feet and was designed by Perkins&Will, and fabricated by Demiurge. It was inspired by civil leader and activist Lyda Moore Merrick, who once said: “My father passed a ...

Dylann Roof has a legitimate claim to the heritage that Nikki Haley upholds for its devotion to family and tradition, traits ...

In May 1865, the national government threw itself a parade. It had been more than a month since the rebellion in defense of ...

Deep in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, there's a grey obelisk, around 2m (6ft) high, its inscription faded. It commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the ...

The memorial is to Robert A Smith, a Scottish man who fought in the US Civil War Deep in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, there's a grey obelisk, around 2m (6ft) high, its inscription faded. It ...

For more than a century, a Confederate obelisk stood in front of the DeKalb County, Ga., courthouse. On Saturday, the county dedicated a statue of Lewis, a local member of Congress and civil ...

A 30-foot Confederate obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908 previously stood in Decatur Square for more than 110 years.. It featured text inscriptions on all four ...

(CNN) — A statue honoring civil rights hero and US Congressman John Lewis was unveiled Saturday outside of Atlanta, replacing a Confederate monument that had stood there for more than a century ...

The statue to the late civil rights leader and Georgia lawmaker John Lewis now stands at the very spot in Decatur Square where a monument to the confederacy stood for more than a 100 years.

The former Confederate memorial, a 30-foot-tall stone obelisk, was funded in part by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and dedicated in 1908.; It was removed from the site in 2020 after a ...

The obelisk was one of at least 230 Confederate symbols to be removed, relocated or renamed after George Floyd, a Black man, was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis in 2020.