Kirk Savage

The early controversy over whether or not to build the Washington Monument on the National Mall.

Contrary to the image of the kneeling slave, Black abolitionists did not wait passively for the "Day of Jubilee." They led the charge.

The debate over a Charleston monument to John Calhoun exemplifies the problems of contextualizing Confederate monuments.

Civil War monuments erased an emancipated Black population, but the Sphinx looked to an integrated Africa and America.

Many monuments in the South were made in the North — by the same companies, and with the same molds, as those sold to Northern towns.

On America's iconic monuments and the idea of national remembrance.