Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Presidential historian Alexis Coe talked about the significance of presidential monuments, as part of a conversation about President's Day 2025.

Two federal agencies recently approved the resource management plan for Bears Ears National Monument, even as one freshman lawmaker from Utah wants to strip presidential authority to create monuments.

Since the passage of the Antiquities Act in 1906, 18 presidents – nine Democratic and nine Republican – have established or expanded more than 160 national monuments, according to the Congressional ...

"This legislation overturns years of a one-sided approach." Lawmakers ignite fierce battle for control of national monuments: 'Political agenda' first appeared on The Cool Down.

on Thursday to introduce the Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act, which would strip a president’s sole authority to create or change the size of monuments and hand that power over ...

Here is a short summary of the bill: This bill, known as the "Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act," proposes to change how national monuments are established or extended in the ...