William Tecumseh Sherman

Critics argue the move would violate the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. One problem: There is no 1878 Posse Comitatus Act.

Connections between public history and policy in the wake of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

Few who are memorialized in stone could fully pass moral muster today. Is that a problem?

The federal government has long extended amnesty to white Americans.

The history of Atlanta's first Civil War monument may reveal how to deal with them in the present.

We asked about monuments in your home town. Here's what you said.

More than 150 years after Appomattox, Americans are still fighting over the great issues at the heart of the conflict.

A detailed look at when and where the U.S. Army was able to enforce the new rule of law in the years following the Civil War.