Abraham Lincoln Brigade Monument

The monument you are approaching is composed of forty-five translucent onyx panels held together by a steel frame. It stands forty feet long and eight feet high, serving as a permanent record of the Americans who volunteered to fight against fascism during the Spanish Civil War in the nineteen thirties. Artists Ann Chamberlain and Walter Hood designed this structure to act as a theater of history, incorporating archival photographs, maps of front lines, and the written words of soldiers and poets into the stone itself. It holds the distinction of being the first government-sanctioned monument in the United States to honor the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.