Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Maya Lin recounts the experience of creating the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Americans have erected countless monuments to past wars. But how do we pay tribute to the fallen in a conflict that may never end?

A COVID memorial will have to commemorate shame and failure as well as grief and bravery.

At E. 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis, a self-organizing network explores what it means to construct and maintain a public memorial.

Every statue defends an idea about history, but what if those ideas are wrong?

Might a new approach to war memorials keep us out of future unnecessary wars?

In hindsight: A day created to commemorate peace has been transformed into one that perpetuates war.

Historians have the uncomfortable role of shattering people’s memories.

The 20th century produced monuments to a false consensus—can the 21st century create a more representative commemorative sphere?

On the war's 50th anniversary, peace activists will be challenging the Pentagon's whitewashed history.

The question of whether or not one served, or was willing to serve, or would be willing to serve, goes deeper than name-calling and allegations of draft dodging.