historical markers

An illustration of William Lewis Moore staring down U.S. 11, the highway he was murdered on. Moore's portrait is framed in the silhouette of a common historical marker template: a rectangular sign, with a rounded top edge for a state seal.

National

COMIC: The roadside marker unlocking a forgotten civil rights murder

10:19am April 24, 2024

by Connie Hanzhang Jin

In 1963, William Lewis Moore was murdered in Alabama while on a civil rights protest walk. Silence around the murder bothered one man for years, until he campaigned to put up a marker about it.

National

Curious, fascinating and offensive markers from around the U.S.

5:00am April 21, 2024

The U.S. marks the amazing, the curious and the problematic. Here are some samples.

The Menorah memorial is seen outside of Kharkiv at the Drobitsky Yar Holocaust memorial, a location that saw a mass killing of Jewish people by Nazis during WWII. UNESCO included the memorial in its list of sites that have sustained damaged since Russia i

World News

UNESCO says 53 cultural sites in Ukraine have been damaged since the Russian invasion

6:17pm April 02, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

The damaged sites include churches, historic buildings, museums and monuments. A UNESCO spokesperson said they fear more sites will be added to the list, as the group works to verify the destruction.

A Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission plaque is seen along a roadside in New Castle, Pa. A recent review of all 2,500 markers has resulted in the state removing two markers, revising two and ordering new text for two others so far.

Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers

3:17am December 27, 2021

by The Associated Press

Pennsylvania is reviewing its 2,500 roadside markers, scrutinizing factual errors, inadequate historical context, and racist or otherwise inappropriate references.

Human Interest

NC 'History On A Stick' Signs Disappearing Too Fast To Keep Up

3:54pm July 10, 2019

by Martha Waggoner, Associated Press

Hurricanes, thievery, and wrecks are taking out North Carolina's popular historical highway markers faster than the state can keep up.