A rusty red boxcar in Waterloo, Iowa once symbolized the promise to preserve and commemorate Black history. Now, it conjures the memories of racial and economic inequalities that persistently haunt the small American city. 

Gender Mobius is Aiyyana Maracle's performance monument that narrates the artist's journey to Indigenous womanhood. 

The Everyday Life of Memorials by Andrew Shanken explores the meanings memorials and monuments make in quotidian contexts. 

Although the Washington Meridians project represented ambitions on the scale of empire, it only corresponded locally, in the United States's capital city. The project reveals the clumsy nature of a young nation's will to ordering time and expanding territory, as well as the error-prone desire for world-making that accompanied the genocidal logic of manifest destiny.