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Who broke George Washington's walking stick at the SC Statehouse? Yankees? Rebels? An ex-governor?
On the steps of the SC Statehouse sits a statue of George Washington, with a broken walking stick. How it broke, however, is ...
How assassinations and war changed how the U.S. remembers its presidents
The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.
10 Institutions You Didn’t Know Had Ties to Slavery
These enduring foundations of the United States of America have ties to the institution of slavery A country’s racist past ...
Colorado gets new Trump portrait after he balked at last one
Colorado’s Democratic lawmakers said Thursday they would temporarily replace an $11,000 portrait of President Trump in the ...
Colorado Capitol has new Trump portrait, after he railed over last one
The White House donated a new portrait after President Donald Trump complained about the painting that had hung in Colorado’s ...
Hundreds of thousands mourn top Iranian military commanders and scientists killed in Israeli strikes
Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets of downtown Tehran on Saturday for the funeral of the head of the ...
On the Fourth of July, don’t just think about flags. Consider the pole.
The Fourth of July is a day for flags, of course, but consider another part of the patriotic display that’s taken for granted — the flagpole. It’s not the most interesting thing in the urban landscape ...