Costly pool project: Trump awarded a $6.9m contract to repaint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool 'American Flag Blue', sparking controversy over its timing during war and high inflation. Reporter ...

IndyCar has pulled a controversial t-shirt for the upcoming Freedom 250 race in Washington DC after fans slammed the design ...

Sabin Howard’s Grand Liberty Arch won the Capitol Preservation Board’s pick for a new large monument at the Utah Capitol.

D.C.’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is shut down before Friday evening’s rush hour after a protester scaled the bridge ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. The closest thing the United States has to a national monument to the ...

The United Nations has taken a major step in trying to correct a historic wrong. It’s calling for reparations for African nations that were subjected to the transatlantic slave trade, after voting to ...

Thousands of families and students on school field trips visit George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate this of time year, and many will go to the slave memorial. But until 1983, that burial site for ...

Listen to the audio edition here: When, on January 22nd, National Park Service workers unceremoniously crowbarred the slavery-memorial panels off the walls of the President’s House at 6th and Market ...

For the past six years, a towering bronze statue of Caesar Rodney — signer of the Declaration of Independence and enslaver — has been gathering dust in storage, most recently in the darkness of a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Slavery is a dark part of American history, but it’s a history that can’t be overlooked. One Memphis church is working to make sure it isn’t, and now it has a big boost to advance ...

Workers from the National Park Service carefully reinstalled the glass slavery exhibit Thursday at the President’s House memorial at 6th and Market streets on Independence Mall. The exhibits were some ...