Monuments and Memorials

“Why do we have monuments of people who owned slaves?” That’s the question that D.C. Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie’s six-year-old daughter asked him and his wife one day while driving from D.C. into Virginia.

A $15 million memorial will open next year in Washington to honor Native American military service members and veterans, more than two decades after planning began.

Stewart L. Udall was from the American West. Perhaps that is why he had such affection for clear, wide-open spaces. What he did not like was clutter. And after coming to Washington as a congressman from Arizona, Udall decided to attack it.