MONUMENT RESOURCES
BLOGS
KIRK SAVAGE - Professor, History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
READ THE PLAQUE - a project of 99% Invisible and The Atlantic
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? - By POPville, DC's neighborhood blog
READ THE PLAQUE - a project of 99% Invisible and The Atlantic
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE? - By POPville, DC's neighborhood blog
BOOKS
THE FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL - By Lawrence Halprin
MEMORIAL MANIA: Public Feeling in America - By Erika Doss
MONUMENT WARS: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape - By Kirk Savage
MEMORIAL MANIA: Public Feeling in America - By Erika Doss
MONUMENT WARS: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape - By Kirk Savage
FILMS
MAYA LIN: A STRONG CLEAR VISION - A film about the designer of the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial
LAWS
THE COMMEMORATIVE WORKS ACT - A law defining who and what can be commemorated on federal land in the District of Columbia.
MEMORIAL & PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
MONUMENT LAB - an independent public art and history studio based in Philadelphia. Monument Lab cultivates and facilitates critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments.
THE ONE TREE PROJECT - ASLA Student award-winning exploration of a Pin Oak in life and death.
THE ONE TREE PROJECT - ASLA Student award-winning exploration of a Pin Oak in life and death.
MONUMENTS IN THE NEWS
FiveThirtyEight - "Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History"
NPR - "Confederate Statues Come Down Around U.S., But Not Everywhere"
NPR - "Confederate Statues Come Down Around U.S., But Not Everywhere"
WASHINGTON DC
ART ON CALL - A city-wide effort to restore Washington's abandoned police and fire call boxes as neighborhood artistic icons.
ART ON CALL - SHERIDAN KALORAMA - DC'S Sheridan-Kalorama Neighborhood's beautifully-curated contribution to Art on Call.
ART ON CALL - SHERIDAN KALORAMA - DC'S Sheridan-Kalorama Neighborhood's beautifully-curated contribution to Art on Call.
WEBSITES
MEMORIALS IN WASHINGTON, D.C.: An interactive map of commemorative works in the nation's capital - By the National Capital Planning Commission
MEMORIALS AND MUSEUMS MASTER PLAN - By the National Capital Planning Commission
MEMORIALS AND MUSEUMS MASTER PLAN - By the National Capital Planning Commission