Monuments

There are 133 national monuments in the United States. Some are man made, but many are protected natural areas like Bears Ears in Utah. Bears Ears was established by President Obama in 2016. A year later, President Trump ordered a review to reduce the amount of territory protected, though President Biden later restored the original boundaries. The tug of war over Bears Ears highlights what can be a confusing realm of protected lands. McKenzie Long writes about this This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments.

A new monument to mark the graves of Archibald Yell and his family members was dedicated this weekend at Fayetteville’s Evergreen Cemetery. Yell, who is…

Joe Weishaar, an alumnus of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, won a design contest for the national World War One monument when he was 25…

The Cherokee Nation is searching for five-foot tall, iron boundary markers put in by the U.S. General Land Office in the mid-19th century. The survey…

Earlier this year, Fayetteville native Joe Weishaar won a competition to determine the design for a National World War One Memorial to be built in…