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How we tell history in public spaces

Who should be honored with public statues and street names?  And who gets to decide that?  Should we even put a person or a group on a pedestal?  These article excerpts investigate these questions about monuments and creating public memory using public spaces.
created by Matt Deegan on July 22, 2021

The Day White Virginia Stopped Admiring Gen. Robert E. Lee and Started Worshiping Him

Stripping Virginia of its Lee tributes is far harder than it is in other places.
by Steve Hendrix via Retropolis on August 23, 2017

The Monuments We Never Built

Why we must ask not only what stories our landscapes of commemoration tell, but also what stories they leave out.
by Brian Hamilton via Edge Effects on August 22, 2017
Robert E. Lee statue

The Fight Over Virginia’s Confederate Monuments

How the state’s past spurred a racial reckoning.
by Benjamin Wallace-Wells via The New Yorker on December 4, 2017
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