The Justice Department this week published legal guidance for the White House saying presidents can eliminate or cut national monuments created by their predecessors. Armed with a new legal directive ...

In recent years, the Confederate monument has gained a new level of symbolism, as the item at the center of an ongoing debate — one that reaches far beyond the subject of monuments — about how and ...

New Orleans is the latest city to start taking down historical but controversial monuments that many say celebrate slavery and the Confederacy. Angry opponents see the move as suppressing or rewriting ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Monuments, it won’t surprise you to hear, hold immense power.

Like the toppling of "Silent Sam" and a statue outside the old Durham County Courthouse in recent years, the removal of Confederate monuments from the State Capitol grounds over the weekend is part of ...

As part of a sweeping order, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum called for a review and potential revision of national monuments. The Interior Department is now assessing reports on how to comply with his ...

On the evening of July 9, 1776, after a public reading of the newly adopted Declaration of Independence, some 40 Americans gathered at Bowling Green in lower Manhattan, lashed ropes to a statue of an ...