Memorials, Monuments

What are monuments for? and why are the inscriptions so often in Latin? What on earth is the point of communicating in a language so few understand...

A rich narrative and detailed documentation of the 54th regiment give insight into Augustus Saint-Gaudens'' famous Civil War Memorial On July 18, 1...

This is a captivating addition to New Holland's London walks list, focusing on important, memorable or beautiful statues, sculptures and monuments ...

Book & DVD. The Humayun's Tomb-Nizamuddin area, inhabited by a vibrant local community, is visited by millions of tourists and pilgrims each ye...

The centre of Melbourne is filled with stories about the city''s pasts. Like all of Australia''s cities, it is a place that is dominated by markers...

Published in association with English Heritage, this fact-filled gift book is the perfect tribute to this iconic historical landmark, the best-know...

The classic guide to one of America's architectural treasuresnow with magnificent new color photos and a foreword by Princeton's dean of religious ...

In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials - to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tri...

Monuments represent power: explicitly and simply, but not universally. In Estonia, the classical notion of a monument is a strange one. Its presenc...

In the heyday of Civil War commemoration at the turn of the twentieth century, Mississippis Vicksburg National Military Park was considered the art...

Scholars across the humanities and social sciences who study public memory study the ways that groups of people collectively remember the past. One...

In 1926, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was commissioned by communist art historian and collector Eduard Fuchs to build a monument to Rosa Luxemburg and ...

The last veteran of the First World War has long since died, and those of the Second are getting ever scarcer, but public interest in war memorials...

Tower Bridge, close to the Tower of London, is one of the best-known and most recognizable bridges in the world. Opened on 30 June 1894, this combi...

Forever at the Finish Line tells the remarkable and inspiring story of Daniel Mitrovich, a runner from San Diego who had a goal of putting a life-s...

Epitaphs of the Great War Passchendaele is an edited collection of headstone inscriptions from the graves of those killed during the Third Battle o...

Despite a century having passed since the signing of the Armistice, the scale of the legacy of unexploded ammunition from The Great War is still ...

At the height of her career, Bell journeyed into the heart of the Middle East retracing the steps of the ancient rulers who left tangible markers o...

This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores those immortalised in marble and bronze - and ...

'A treasure-trove of inspiration . . . [Beyond the Footpath] shows us how to make the most of the calm beauty of the natural world that surrounds u...

Why is it easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who oppose us. We tear down our statue...

Norfolk has a wealth of important archaeological sites, historic buildings and landscapes. This guide is the first to use them to tell the countys ...

Magnificent art complements an unvarnished history of the Statue of Liberty and its relationship to immigration policy in the United States through...

A beautiful, illustrated exploration of European burial sites and memorials from the First and Second World Wars The wealth of splendid photography...

Many people visit the First World War battlefields and leave disappointed, not understanding the connection to the sites they go to or their signif...

With nearly 600 years of history, involving plots, intrigue and paranormal activity, it is surprising that no one has ever before written the defin...

What are the ingredients of our great British public parks? We often think of the wider landscape of trees, grass, lakes, meandering footways, bedd...

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the oldest museum dedicated to the Holocaust in the United States, recently opened its newly designed buil...