Toppling Word-Monuments in Texas and Beyond

If the monument removals of the past two years have taught us anything, it is that symbolic struggles shape popular consciousness, revealing the collective capacity of the people to set the coordinates through which we navigate space.

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What’s in a Name?

A national reckoning with American history and racial injustice has been playing out across various sites, from monuments to museums, school curricula, and increasingly, maps. Within this context, a team of conservation research scientists has performed a quantitative analysis of 2,200 National Park place names, asking how place names in US National Parks function to … Read more

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