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The monument reflected that moment. The deliberations occurred in an era in which the World’s Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, had created a taste for monument-making on a grand scale.

In what the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) is calling an “unprecedented” discovery ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued an order to counter what he calls a revisionist movement that “seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding ...

Confederate monuments continue to spark controversy. Over 2,000 Confederate memorials are still in place across the country, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

National monuments in Washington, D.C., are missing a big piece of American history: women These women deserve to be memorialized within one of America's most prominent public spaces.

The Stonewall National Monument visitor center, near the Stonewall National Monument in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York on Feb. 13, 2025.

The iconic magazines were staples in the homes of Black Americans and others across the country. From the 1960s through the 2000s, Johnson Publishing Company was the largest Black-owned publishing ...