Proteus Gowanus Interdisciplinary Gallery in Brooklyn is commemorating that fight with its Battle Pass Project, a series of installations, performances and family workshops connected to local historic sites.
In recent weeks, the university has been commemorating that tumultuous period with a program called "Opening the Closed Society".
He is commemorating that milestone this week with his working quartet — featuring Stacey Dillard on saxophones, Dezron Douglas on bass and Neal Smith on drums — and as a special guest on Friday and Saturday only, the venerable tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath.
When Khaled al-Asaad, a scholar who for 40 years had supervised and cared for Palmyra, refused to flee the descent of Isis upon the ruins, he was making a statement that deserves long to be commemorated: that the fragile and romantic remains of the ancient city embody an ideal worth dying for.
It is in how the Prophet's ascension is commemorated that different Muslims differentiate themselves.
Several pavilions that disappeared are commemorated at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
And as Sept. 11 approaches, I wonder what we will be commemorating on that grim day.
With the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I approaching in July, several watchmakers are commemorating the simple designs that allowed military leaders to coordinate precision attacks and to usher in a new era of battle by airplane.
There is the history, notably that surrounding Chief Joseph and his epic 1877 running battle that is commemorated at sites along the Nez Perce National Historic Park.
The two men's lives are commemorated by simple marble plaques that bear only their names and the dates of their birth and death.
