A Justice Department legal opinion released Tuesday disavowed a 1938 determination that monuments created by previous presidents under the Antiquities Act can't be revoked.

The Justice Department says President Donald Trump has the right to abolish national monuments established by former President Joe Biden at the request of Native American tribes. In the final days ...

President Donald Trump has the power to abolish two national monuments in California established by his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, as well as any others created by past presidents ...

Trump bid to shrink monuments could prompt big legal battle. By Jennifer Yachnin, Heather Richards | 06/12/2025 01:41 PM EDT . The Justice Department this week published legal guidance for the ...

Last fall, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation launched the Monuments Project, a $250 million initiative to better understand and improve America’s commemorative landscape – the monuments, statues ...

The association lists national monuments in six states, including Bears Ears in Utah, designated by President Barack Obama in 2016. Trump reduced its size in December 2017, then Biden restored it.

More than 140 Confederate monuments have been removed from public land since the Charleston, S.C., church shooting in 2015, and about two-thirds of those came down in 2020 in the aftermath of ...

These removals may seem, well, monumental. But according to a study of U.S. public monuments, they’re a drop in the bucket, representing a mere 0.6 percent of the country’s nearly 50,000 ...

For more than a century, those fraudulent, oppressive monuments stood undisturbed, until the proposed removal of statues of Robert E. Lee in New Orleans and Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 touched ...

Who do American monuments honor the most? A landmark study finally has answers. Review of 50,000 historical monuments across the country concludes that they ‘misrepresent our history.’ ...