The structure is made of white marble blocks that range in thickness from 15’ at the base to 18" at the monument’s top. The marble changes color at 150 feet; that marks the spot where construction ...

View of carving and Stone Mountain Park grounds in 1928, from the Atlanta History Photograph Collection of the Kenan Research Center at Atlanta History Center (image courtesy the Atlanta History ...

A new national monument dedicated to the murdered teenager Emmett Till and his mother honors three sites critical to Till's story, and central to the birth of America's civil rights movement. The ...

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The groundbreaking ceremony of a monument to honor the story of Chinese immigrants in Eureka, who were forcibly expelled in 1885 and barred from Humboldt County for decades, was held Friday afternoon.

Vandals were discovered to have pried an over century-old bronze plaque from a stone monument memorializing the historic ...

As I stood alone on Hospital Rock at Lava Beds National Monument, the wind whipping my hair around as the rain persisted from the west, I was struck with both a sense of awe at the sight of the land ...

People across the state now have a chance to help shape a new piece of American history. Organizers behind a planned women’s ...

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 ...