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 ...

Universities, research scholars, historians and analysts all review historical documents— examining events in the past, looking for context to better understand the past's impact on modern ...

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 ...

In 2019, Georgia passed a law that prohibits anyone, including local officials, from removing, defacing or changing Confederate monuments. Soon after, some local governments erected contextual ...

A school district would get to choose whichever document it wants, however, S.B. 34 would require a written explanation of the document’s historical importance to accompany each display.