Perhaps unsurprisingly, the audit found that the majority of America's monuments commemorate white, male historical figures. Smithsonian Museum of American Art Last summer, statues were seemingly ...

Think again! The world’s most iconic monuments are packed with hidden stories, quirks, and mysteries that millions of visitors overlook. here are 25 secrets about famous monuments that’ll make you see ...

Historical monuments are intended to be timeless, but almost all have an expiration date. As society’s values shift, the legitimacy of monuments can and often does erode. This is because monuments – ...

Before protesters in America and Europe began painting over statues, or toppling them, or hanging them from trees, or rolling them into the nearest river, the historian Paul Farber noticed that people ...

Graham Averill is Outside magazine’s national parks columnist, but some of his favorite adventures have happened inside state parks. What is a national monument, anyway? That’s what I kept asking ...

Joan of Arc is more popular than Alexander Hamilton. Saint Francis of Assisi edges out Robert E. Lee. And there are 11 times more mermaids than congresswomen. These are some of the more surprising ...