This cannon, supposedly used in the forceful removal of the Muscogee people from Georgia during the Second Creek War — during which thousands were killed — was installed in Decatur by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Removed in 2021

Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, long commemorated in Sitka, was a Russian colonial administrator known for brutal attacks on local indigenous peoples.

Removed to a museum in 2020

This plaque, dedicated to the memory of 295 pioneers slaughtered by Native Americans in 1861, commemorates a fiction: there was no Almo Mountain massacre.

This 35-foot monument long loomed over the Union state of Indiana, commemorating the Confederate soldiers who died at Camp Morton, an Indianapolis prisoner-of-war camp operated by the Union Army.

Removed in 2020

This nine-foot bronze statue commemorates John Mason, a 17th-century deputy governor of Connecticut responsible for a 1637 raid on a Pequot fort known today as the Mystic Massacre. It was relocated from the site of the massacre to Windsor in 1996.

This statue, commissioned as a generic tribute to Texas Rangers, used Capt. Jay Banks — who opposed integration, carried out acts of state-sanctioned racial violence, and once posed for a photo in front of a lynching victim — as a model. It was removed from a Dallas airport in 2020 but salvaged by the Texas Rangers baseball team, who now display it at the Globe Life Field in Arlington.

Though dozens of Confederate monuments have been taken down across Florida, some remain standing, like this depiction of two Confederate soldiers beside an obelisk outside the Hillsborough County Courthouse.

A century-old Confederate statue known as Silent Sam was toppled in 2018 by student protesters, who later attempted to bury the statue’s stone head in the dirt on the UNC campus.

Toppled by protesters in 2018

This cemetery monument erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy was made from granite mined at Stone Mountain, Georgia, home to the largest bas-relief statue in the world (of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson) and the origin place of the Ku Klux Klan.

Toppled by protesters in 2020

After multiple incidents of vandalism, this monument to a frontiersman who oversaw the bloody federal removal of Navajo people, known as the Long Walk, beginning in 1863, was finally removed this winter.

Removed in 2026

Designed by Frederick Ruckstuhl and paid for jointly by the state of Arkansas and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, this marble-and-bronze tribute to the Confederate dead was unveiled on the State Capitol grounds on June 3, 1905, the birthday of Jefferson Davis, before a crowd of more than 3,000.