Category: Monuments

There are a dozen villages and cities in Central New York that sound like they have the same name. Oswego, Otsego, and Owego are frequently…

Kennedy Square in Providence, Rhode Island is a major bus terminal for the whole city. The City Hall, erected in 1878 and the Federal Court…

Madison Square Park on Manhattan is an attractive public space. It has several statues on exhibit including Saint-Gaudens’s Admiral David Farragut and Republican Senator Roscoe…

Roswell was a Georgia textile town before the Civil War. Once the war started, the Confederate government contracted with the mills to produce a wide…

Confederate Brigadier General Albert Pike statue was re-erected in Washington on Saturday following an executive order from President Donald Trump. The statue had been attacked…

Akela Reason from the University of Georgia speaks about the building of Civil War monuments in New York City and Brooklyn. After Gettysburg, New York…

Historian Tyler McGraw has a good video at Emerging Civil War where he discusses the impending removal of signage explaining the history behind the erection…

My wife Michele and I were out in Portland, Oregon exploring the Colombia River Gorge. She was doing some research and found out that there…

I went to the Bull Run Battlefield at Manassas, Virginia last year and saw the new signage near the Stonewall Jackson Equestrian Statue on Henry…

The New York Times is reporting that this week the National Park Service will begin taking down objects and signs that deal with slavery. This…