Built in two phases in 1848 and 1884 and subsequently dedicated in 1885, the Washington Monument — a marble-faced granite obelisk that honors the first U.S. president, George Washington — opened to ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Pullman National Monument officially opened to the public on Labor Day. The Pullman area on Chicago's South Side is known as hallowed ground, where the nation's labor movement was ...

Nobody ever left from Hattiesburg to go fight in the Civil War. The town didn’t even exist. The Confederate statue at the Forrest County Courthouse commemorates a past that never was. A lot of people ...

the Confederate monument had been here for 112 years. Crews were here for several hours today, and all that's left where the statue used to be is a slab of concrete. I talked to the Benton County ...

The Washington Monument, a soaring tribute in the heart of the nation’s capital to George Washington, whose Abrahamic faith in American independence earned him the eternal distinction of Father of His ...

Bunker Hill Monument is part of the Boston National Historical Park and a stop on the Freedom Trail. The first major battle of the American Revolution took place on Breed's Hill in June 1775, though ...

The American Historical Association (AHA) is calling for renewed “awareness” of history in the debate over whether to tear down Confederate monuments, saying that “a monument is not history itself.” ...

“The Genius of Liberty,” atop a granite pedestal overlooking Penn Square, gazes to the north with a drawn sword in her right hand and a shield in her left. She is crowned with five stars that are ...

On the south lawn of the Capitol Building in Austin sits the Tejano Monument, a $1.8 million 525-foot bronze sculpture designed to honor the first European settlers of Texas — the Tejanos. It is ...

It was the early 1990s, and City Councilman Henry “Chuck” Richardson was watching the angry, recently liberated people of the former Soviet Union tear down statues of Stalin and Lenin — and it got ...

The sprawling monument will now be called the Pacific Islands Heritage National Monument. A sprawling 490,000-square-mile marine national monument now has a new name to go along with its intriguing ...

If you’re driving along the Columbia River Gorge, you might blink twice at the sight of a towering circle of concrete monoliths rising from the rolling sagebrush. It looks like Stonehenge somehow ...