Maryland College Dedicates Memorial to Enslaved People
In 2016, St. Mary’s College of Maryland broke ground on a new athletics stadium. Before construction could begin, the college […]
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House Passes Adams Memorial Bill
The US House of Representatives has voted in favor of a John Adams Memorial in Washington, DC.
Memorials for the Future Competition in DC
NPS, NCPC and Van Alen Institute are collaborating on Memorials for the Future–an ideas competition to reimagine how we think about, feel, and experience memorials.
The Guns of August and The Dogs of War: Remembering and Forgetting America's Great War
At the time no one knew to call it World War One. In the mid-1910s it was widely termed the ‘Great War’ and later the ‘War To End All Wars,’ an especially ironic name given the role contemporary historians have argued WWI played in precipitating WWII. In fact the History Channel recently aired a three-part series treating the period from the mid-1910s through the mid-1940s as single era of warfare. This way of remembering World War I, as but a small part of a larger history, is common throughout the United States, although in sharp contrast to much of the rest of the English-speaking world.
The Mid-Atlantic Remembers
On the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, memorials and exhibits served to preserve and sustain public memory. This […]
9/11: How Do We Remember?
As the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, numerous memorials, commemorations, and exhibits mark the event. A few notable stories: In […]
Memorials in Washington DC: An Interactive Map
The National Capital Planning Committee’s interactive map Memorials in Washington DC went live recently. The map uses information from Washington […]