RICHMOND, Va. -- A group of local historians and artists have planted giant historical markers in front of several Confederate statues along Richmond’s Monument Avenue. The anonymous group, named ...

ATLANTA — The 1911 Peace Monument sits near the entrance gate to Atlanta's Piedmont Park at 14th Street and Piedmont Avenue. In its original form, the statue included inscriptions commemorating ...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Communities across the United States are grappling with the issue of public monuments and memorials. The most public of the conversations have revolved around Civil War monuments, ...

Families said they are waiting months for grave markers they’ve already paid for from a long-established East Columbus ...

Now that Atlanta has renamed Confederate Avenue, it’s deciding how to deal with its Confederate monuments. Removing the monuments is not an option. A state law prohibits it. Instead, city officials ...

Atlanta became the first city in the country to install contextual markers around its Confederate monuments a month ago, but the local branch of the NAACP says the explanations on the signs aren’t ...

According to the latest SPLC tally, there are roughly 780 Confederate monuments standing across the U.S. That’s a staggering number of tributes to the losing side of a treasonous insurrection; a war ...

The city of Atlanta will install markers next to Confederate monuments to give context to the painful history they represent. The first of the markers, funded by the Atlanta History Center, will be ...

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.