Four years ago, the Black Lives Matter movement reinvigorated public debate about historical monuments in the U.S. Monuments began coming down across the country. From Christopher Columbus 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 ...

The opinion concludes the Antiquities Act, established by Congress in 1906, allows the president to alter previous designations and decide that earlier national monuments, "either never were or no ...

The monuments proposed for cuts include two shrunk by President Donald Trump in his first term: the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. The other sites are the ...

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 ...

Citing the “vandalism” of monuments, Republican state lawmakers passed a law in 2021 that prevents Fort Smith from removing its monument and supplants local control over dozens of other ...

Monuments matter not only because they speak to our past but because they allow us to discuss the most pressing issues facing us today. There are many examples of what this looks like in Chicago ...