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

The plaque marking the Chinese Massacre of 1871 is not easy to find. Embedded into the sidewalk on North Los Angeles Street in front of the Chinese American Museum downtown, it is one of several ...

Before protesters in America and Europe began painting over statues, or toppling them, or hanging them from trees, or rolling them into the nearest river, the historian Paul Farber noticed that people ...

On July 1, Richmond, Va.’s, monument to Confederate Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson — which had towered above the city’s Monuments Avenue since 1919 — was taken down from its pedestal. The ...

Few structures represent the United States as powerfully as the Washington Monument. At the center of Washington, D.C., the impressive marble obelisk (555 feet tall and 55 feet wide) pays grand ...

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with a dream – and in the years since, millions have come here to make their own voices heard. According to Mike Litterst, ...

The Lincoln Memorial as seen from the National Mall at night. April 25, 2006. CrashingWaves, Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/crashingwaves/483396979/ Long ...

Monuments and memorials are many things: statements, remembrances, admonishments, celebrations, eulogies. They provide information, context, emotion and mental stimulation. They stir our memories and ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the audit found that the majority of America's monuments commemorate white, male historical figures. Smithsonian Museum of American Art Last summer, statues were seemingly ...

Joan of Arc is more popular than Alexander Hamilton. Saint Francis of Assisi edges out Robert E. Lee. And there are 11 times more mermaids than congresswomen. These are some of the more surprising ...

With colonialist statues being toppled in America and beyond, T asked five artists to envision a different kind of memorial, one that embodies this moment of reckoning. ACCORDING TO DATA compiled by ...

Officials voted two weeks ago to keep the monument on courthouse property in Lake Charles, La., but Hurricane Laura toppled its statue from the base. By Lucy Tompkins As protests against police ...