How to fix, remix or erase America’s most offensive monuments

At a time when toppled statues are being remounted, an art critic and an illustrator examine, edit and unpack three ...
Los Angeles Times

Biden creates two vast national monuments in California during final week in office

Proponents say the new monuments will protect a plethora of vulnerable wildlife and culturally significant sites while staving off development and resource extraction. Biden signed proclamations ...
Fast Company

Racist monuments are coming down all over the U.S. What should replace them?

The pedestal that used to hold a statue of Confederate General and Klu Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forest before it was removed by the city of Memphis in 2019 ...

'It's a moment of death and rebirth': The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice

Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting Sun on midwinter's shortest day.
ucdavis.edu

Redefining the Role of Public Monuments

A statue of Christopher Columbus at the feet of Queen Isabella of Spain sat in the rotunda of the Capitol in Sacramento, until July 7, when a crew with a crane removed the statue from the building.
The Hill

DOJ: Trump can abolish protected monuments set aside by past presidents

President Trump can abolish national monuments that were protected from energy development and other activities by past presidents, the Justice Department (DOJ) has determined. The department issued a ...
SFGate

Monuments Men sought to return the most desired object in history

Back when I was an undergraduate at Colby College, my favorite art history professor made a passing comment that stayed with me. As he stood, a silhouette draped in jewel-like colors from the slide ...
E&E

DOJ tells Trump he can wipe out national monuments

An opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel says the Antiquities Act of 1906 allows presidents to shrink or eliminate designations by previous presidents. A key legal adviser to the White House said ...
CNN

The big problem with America’s monuments

Last fall, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation launched the Monuments Project, a $250 million initiative to better understand and improve America’s commemorative landscape – the monuments, statues and ...
PBS

10 Monuments That Changed America

A whirlwind tour of 10 monuments that mark key moments in American history. A whirlwind tour of 10 monuments that mark key moments in American history: from the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore, ...
NPR

'How the Monuments Came Down' Filmmakers On Why Lee Statue Didn't Come Down Sooner

Robert E. Lee lost the Civil War, and now his statue has lost its place on Richmond's Monument Avenue. A pair of filmmakers tells the story of why both those things matter. HANNAH AYERS: We made the ...