ASHEVILLE - With Confederate monuments under fire, one concept getting attention as a way to soften their impact is "contextualization." It's a word that basically means adding historical context to a ...

The DeKalb County commission has approved adding a marker to the 111-year-old Confederate monument in Decatur Square that identifies it as a symbol of racism and white supremacy. Commissioners also ...

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — A page of the controversial DC namesake report was quietly removed overnight as Mayor Muriel Bowser back pedaled on a working group’s recommendation to rename, remove or ...

Just three months ago, the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, long a major patron of the humanities in the United States, announced a major change to its strategic mission, pivoting to ...

The city of Huntsville, Alabama, was fined $25,000 last year for removing a statue of a Confederate soldier. (photo via the George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has refined the scope of a working group’s assignment to decide what actions should be taken on renaming or contextualizing parks, streets, schools, buildings and monuments ...

WASHINGTON — A task force commissioned by the Washington, D.C., government has recommended renaming, relocating or adding context to dozens of monuments, schools, parks and buildings because of their ...