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There's So Much to Discover in Washington, D.C. Nov. 09, 2024
By Bonnie and Bill Neely We were in Washington, D.C., for a special performance of The Washington Ba... Read More
The Civil War I Grew Up With Mar. 16, 2023
WASHINGTON — With all the talk about the discovery of mass burial graves in faraway Ukraine, t... Read More
Robert E. Lee Doesn't Deserve a Statue, But Thomas Jefferson Does Oct. 22, 2021
In New York City, a statue of Thomas Jefferson has graced the City Council chamber for 100 years. Th... Read More
Beware the Street Name Police Aug. 15, 2021
Old Town is an historic corner of Alexandria, Virginia, rich with historic homes inhabited by many o... Read More
Flawed Men, Perhaps, But Great Deeds Aug. 04, 2020
The danger of erecting monuments to men is that they all stand on clay feet. Many Americans who have... Read More
Some Monumentally Hard Decisions Jun. 30, 2020
One of the recently vandalized monuments is a statue of poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Someone smeare... Read More
Build Those Walls! Aug. 05, 2019
The city where I live, an undistinguished place in Massachusetts, is getting ready to build a replic... Read More
Can a Giant Christian Cross Be Secular?: Challenge to Maryland WWI Memorial Illustrates Confusion Caused by Supreme Court's Establishment Clause Cases Feb. 27, 2019
Let's talk about the constitutional significance of bushes at the foot of the 40-foot-high, 16-ton c... Read More
When Parody Becomes Reality, You Know There's a Problem Aug. 29, 2017
I recently wrote about the controversy over removing Confederate era statues from public places, and... Read More
This Week, the Answer Man Looks at Our Nation's Capital Apr. 12, 2014
1. This U.S. president signed bipartisan legislation creating the National Cultural Center in Washin... Read More
