Brian Gibbs, a park ranger at Iowa's Effigy Mounds National Monument, says he has his job back after being laid off on Valentine's Day as part of a Department of Government Efficiency initiative.

For all that, there is something more pointedly personal about burning an effigy. More than a stand against a policy or platform, effigy burnings seek to destroy the person, symbolically at the ...

Effigy Mounds National Monument is located in ... American Indian tribes would build mounds of soil, clay, or rocks, they ...