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The Jessamine County Courthouse lawn is home to a one-of-a-kind Confederate Civil War monument that wears a Union soldier's hat. David Swartz is a historian and professor, who spent five years ...
Lee monument. The removal of Richmond’s Confederate monuments, by protester force or political persuasion, made us a focal point of the 2020 social justice movement. But Charlottesville ...
WASHINGTON — A man who wrote “Hamas is Comin” on a DC monument last year has been sentenced ... Columbus and spray-painting it with the pro-terrorist group message. The prison sentence ...
Lawsuits to block removal of Confederate memorials dropped in South Carolina Lawsuits filed to stop the removal of memorials to Confederate leaders and a pro-slavery congressman in a South ...
Critics said a Confederate monument in Fairview & New Hope Cemeteries in Liberty is a symbol of racism and not a grave marker. In November 2020, the statue’s defenders installed a plaque bearing ...
That discovery prompted City Council to approve plans to erect “a simple stone memorial (at) … the graves of unknown Confederate soldiers,” The Times-Dispatch reported in August 1939.
President Trump has ordered monuments removed or changed for "ideological" reasons to be restored. How will this affect ...
PORTSMOUTH — Portsmouth Pro Musica, under the artistic direction of Priscilla Stevens French, will conclude the group’s 40th anniversary season by performing Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.
ATHLETES. THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD SAYS PORTSMOUTH’S MEMORIAL BRIDGE SHOULD GET A RISK ASSESSMENT. THAT IS NOT TO SAY THE BRIDGE IS DANGEROUS, BUT INSTEAD IT IS ONE OF THE 68 ...
This monument, based on Switzerland’s Lion of Lucerne, was surrounded by the graves of 3,000 unknown Confederate soldiers. It was constructed in 1895 by the Atlanta Ladies Memorial Association ...
By Jessica Nicholson Country music label Monument Records, home to artists including Walker Hayes and Tigirlily Gold, is folding, with some aspects of the label to be overseen by Sony Music ...