Statue

The National Building Arts Center plans to place the statue at its entrance. “Little Liberty” traveled from Brooklyn to the Sauget preservation museum on the back of a flatbed truck.

Bill Christman's 13-foot-tall depiction of a Native American man was installed at the northwest corner of Cherokee Street and Jefferson Avenue in 1985. Removed this month by neighborhood leaders, the sculpture's new home is the National Building Arts Center in Sauget, Illinois.

Two historians discuss Ninian Edwards' significance to the history of Illinois amid the ongoing efforts in Edwardsville to remove a statue of the city’s namesake.

The city of Edwardsville is considering renaming a downtown park and relocating a statue of the city's namesake after a group of people from the Edwardsville area informed city leaders in June that Ninian Edwards was a slave owner who actively advocated for slavery.

The namesake of Edwardsville owned enslaved people. The troubled history is creating a debate over the city's past and present.

The Christopher Columbus statue, which has generated controversy because of the explorer’s treatment of Native Americans, will not be removed from Tower…

This Columbus Day, the fate of a monument to the explorer in St. Louis’ Tower Grove Park remains unclear.A protest is planned at the base of the statue on…

Discussions about removing the Christopher Columbus statue in Tower Grove Park have re-emerged.Activists have banded together to plan an event, Plotting…

Plans are in motion to erect a bronze statue of jazz musician Miles Davis at his birthplace in Alton, Ill. The city council of Alton gave its approval in…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 5, 2012 - One hundred and fifty-five years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the…