But according to a study of U.S. public monuments, they’re a drop in the bucket, representing a mere 0.6 percent of the country’s nearly 50,000 monuments — monuments to historical figures ...

F our 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 ...

Beyond grade school history classrooms and the insular circles of academia, public history – such as monuments, museums, historical sites and documentaries – is the principal way most people ...

The app, called Kinfolk, transports students like Carter to an augmented reality space where they can walk up to virtual “monuments” of 10 famous Black historical figures and learn their stories.

How historical markers and monuments rewrite U.S. history The nation's historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong. Special Series NPR Investigations: Off The Mark.

Monuments and roadside markers around the state, some dating back more than a century, are being examined for “accuracy and inclusivity” by the Washington State Historical Society.

A Chicago committee has listed five statues of Abraham Lincoln among dozens of monuments that it said needed to be reviewed as part of a project to reconsider symbols that have become “a focal ...