Monument Avenue is an avenue in Richmond, Virginia with a tree-lined grassy mall dividing the east- and westbound traffic, punctuated by City Beautiful-era statues memorializing Virginian Confederate veterans of the American Civil War, including Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and Matthew Fontaine Maury.
The South African War Memorial (also known as the Boer War Memorial or, prior to 1931, the National War Memorial) is an equestrian memorial dedicated to the South Australians who served in the Second Boer War of 11 October 1899 to 31 May 1902.
The African-American Monument is located on the south side of Grant Avenue between milepost 4.3 and 4.4. Erected by the State of Mississippi at a cost of $300,000, including $25,000 contributed by the City of Vicksburg, the sculpture is the work of Dr. Kim Sessums, from Brookhaven, Mississippi.
Pig and Whistle Inn, Bathurst. Not a statue per se, but the Pig & Whistle Inn in Bathurst is the oldest continuously operating pub in South Africa. Now a national monument the inn was built in 1832 by Thomas Hartley, an 1820 settler alongside his forge.
Peace Monument, also known as the Naval Monument or Civil War Sailors Monument, stands on the grounds of the United States Capitol in Peace Circle at First Street, N.W., and Pennsylvania Avenue. Erected from 1877-1878 to commemorate the naval deaths at sea during the Civil War.
A presidential statue would be the most significant casualty in an emerging movement to remove monuments honoring people who helped lead what Native groups describe as a centuries-long war against …
Protesters hang a banner on a statue of a Confederate soldier in Louisville, Ky., August 19, 2017. (Reuters photo: Bryan Woolston) There’s scant evidence that even a majority of African …
The Isandlwana monument marks the location where 22,000 Zulu warriors defeated 1,350 British troops in one of the first battles of the Anglo-Zulu War. It was voted the 20th best landmark in Africa …
It was 1913, and the Civil War had been over for 48 years. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization that worked to populate the South with Confederate war memorials, decided such a …
On Monday night, defenders of the statues squared off against a large group of opponents near the Davis statue in the Mid-City area. “Get the hell out of New Orleans,” the multiracial group of …
The statue of Confederat Gen. Robert E. Lee in the center of Emancipation Park the day after the Unite the Right rally devolved into violence August 13, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
A presidential statue would be the most significant casualty in an emerging movement to remove monuments honoring people who helped lead what Native groups describe as a centuries-long war against …
An inscription added in 1932 said the Yankees withdrew federal troops and "recognized white supremacy in the South" after the group challenged Louisiana's biracial government after the Civil War.
It was 1913, and the Civil War had been over for 48 years. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, an organization that worked to populate the South with Confederate war memorials, decided such a …
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Separated by about three miles and 116 years, two Washington memorials tell vastly different stories about the Civil War, African Americans and their journey to freedom.
After years of planning and construction, the African Renaissance Monument was inaugurated in 2010 to mark the 50th anniversary of Senegal's independence from France. The final cost of the statue …
Demonstrators stormed the site of a monument of a Confederate soldier outside a court in Durham, North Carolina, on August 14, and toppled the bronze statue from its base.
The Isandlwana monument marks the location where 22,000 Zulu warriors defeated 1,350 British troops in one of the first battles of the Anglo-Zulu War. It was voted the 20th best landmark in Africa …
The statue had stood on the courthouse’s manicured lawn since 1924, when the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected it. At the time, it had been 59 years since the Civil War ended.
Standing 49 meters in height, the African Renaissance Monument depicts a man and woman, with a child held in the man's left arm (as the child points towards the west). The giant statue, which cost $27 million to build and took four years to complete, attracted much controversy during the building process.
The statue had stood on the courthouse’s manicured lawn since 1924, when the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected it. At the time, it had been 59 years since the Civil War ended.
The statues were removed, a bronze statue of a Confederate soldier placed at the monument’s top instead. Judgment was moved to Thomasville, GA’s Laurel Hill Cemetery. Silence was moved to the Confederate section of Laurel Grove Cemetery North.
Vandals poured paint over Scottish-South African missionary Andrew Murray's statue in the Western Cape. War memorials were also defaced. A bronze rider marking the Anglo-Boer War from 1899 to 1902 …
Activists took a ladder up to the statue and used a rope to pull down the Confederate Soldiers Monument that was dedicated in 1924. … four main Confederate statues, including a statue of Lee, at …
Statue of Georgia Civil War governor Joseph E. Brown and his wife – said to be of the few husband-and-wife statues in the world. It is located on southwest corner of the Georgia state capitol square.
Dakar, Senegal African Renaissance Monument This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.
The Korean War Veterans Memorial was authorized by Public Law 99-572 on Oct. 28, 1986 "… to honor members of the United States Armed Forces who served in the Korean War, particularly those who were killed in action, are still missing inaction, or were held as prisoners of war."
Statues of generals, political leaders, and prominent citizens during that period in history are coming down all over the South following the violence in Charlottesville.
Located near the U.S. Botanic Garden, the memorial serves to educate, inform and remind all Americans of the human cost of war, and the sacrifices our disabled veterans, their families, and caregivers, have made on behalf of American freedom.