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When Monuments Fall

Moral complexity may be an argument against unthinking iconoclasm. It is not, however, an argument for never taking down statues.
by Kenan Malik via New York Review of Books on September 9, 2020

Hygeia: Women in the Cemetery Landscape

The Mourning Woman emerged during a revival of classical symbolism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century gravestone iconography.
by Corinne Elicone via Nursing Clio on September 3, 2020
Equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt on a horse accompanied by an African man on foot, outside the American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History Grapples with its Most Controversial Piece

Museum visitors, as well as scholars of art, history, and African and Native American studies, discuss the sculpture’s intended and perceived meanings.
by Reniqua Allen via Aeon on August 4, 2020

UVA and the History of Race: The George Rogers Clark Statue and Native Americans

Unlike the statues of Lee and Jackson, these Charlottesville monuments had less to do with memory than they did with an imagined past.
by Christian McMillen via UVA Today on July 27, 2020
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Monument Wars

This exhibit explores discussions about what we choose to memorialize – and why.
Christopher Columbus statue being removed from Grant Park in Chicago.
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Americans Put Up Statues During the Gilded Age. Today We’re Tearing Them Down.

Why the Gilded Age was the era of statues.
by Katrina Gulliver via Made By History on July 26, 2020
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Americans Need to Know the Hard Truth About Union Monuments in the West

During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.
by Megan Kate Nelson via The Atlantic on July 10, 2020
A drawing of the National Emancipation Monument.

The Statue That Never Was

How a monument that championed black sacrifice in the name of emancipation was forgotten.
by Elizabeth R. Varon via Nau Center For Civil War History on July 6, 2020

Tear Down This Statue

The shameful career of Roger Sherman, mild-mannered Yankee.
by Richard Kreitner via The Baffler on July 6, 2020

The True Story of the Freed Slave Kneeling at Lincoln’s Feet

The Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., has become a flashpoint in today’s reckoning with racist statues.
by Laurie Maffly-Kipp via The New Republic on July 1, 2020
Roosevelt statue

Why It's Right That the Theodore Roosevelt Statue Comes Down

Like the museum behind it, the monument was designed in large part to train white people in a fundamentally racist way of seeing.
by Nick Mirzoeff via Hyperallergic on June 30, 2020
Statue of men in a bread line at the FDR memorial.

Who Remembers the Panic of 1819?

We haven’t built many memorials to panics, recessions, or depressions, but maybe we should.
by Jessica Lepler via Process: A Blog for American History on June 30, 2020

American Degeneracy

Michael Lobel on Confederate memorials and the history of “degenerate art."
by Michael Lobel via Art Forum on June 27, 2020
Freedmen's Memorial

Yes, the Freedmen’s Memorial Uses Racist Imagery. But Don’t Tear It Down.

Keep in mind what it meant to the people who created it.
by David W. Blight via Washington Post on June 25, 2020
Police stand inside fence around the Andrew Jackson statue behind the White House; the statue pedestal has the word "Killer" spray painted on it.
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Trump Thinks Andrew Jackson’s Statue Is a Great Monument — But to What?

The truth about policies of Native American removal.
by Jeffrey Ostler via Made By History on June 24, 2020
An image of Columbus, Ohio's statue of Christopher Columbus.

The Vanishing Monuments of Columbus, Ohio

Last week, the mayor announced that the city’s most prominent statue of Christopher Columbus would be removed “as soon as possible.”
by Hanif Abdurraqib via The New Yorker on June 24, 2020

The Power of Empty Pedestals

After Governor Northam announced its removal, two Richmond historians reflect on the legacy of the Lee Monument.
by Gregory D. Smithers, Michael Dickinson via The Bitter Southerner on June 23, 2020
Boston's Emancipation Memorial depicting a black man kneeling in front of Abraham Lincoln.

Black Bostonians Fought For Freedom From Slavery. Where Are The Statues That Tell Their Stories?

Contrary to the image of the kneeling slave, Black abolitionists did not wait passively for the "Day of Jubilee." They led the charge.
by Kevin M. Levin via WBUR on June 16, 2020

Richmond’s Confederate Monuments Were Used to Sell a Segregated Neighborhood

Real-estate developers used the statues to draw white buyers to a neighborhood where houses couldn't be sold “to any person of African descent.”
by Kevin M. Levin via The Atlantic on June 11, 2020

Now Do Lincoln

Protesters are tearing down statues of Columbus and other villains of history. The true test will come when they reckon with their heroes.
by Nick Martin via The New Republic on June 11, 2020

Remember You Will Be Buried

Tracing the American cemetery from the colonial age to the Gilded Age.
by Allison C. Meier via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 12, 2020

The Fight to Decolonize the Museum

Textbooks can be revised, but historic sites, monuments, and collections that memorialize ugly pasts aren’t so easily changed.
by Adam Hochschild via The Atlantic on January 15, 2020
Statue of Thomas Jefferson and an American flag.
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Jefferson's Other Legacy: Religious Liberty

Religious bigotry is only less pressing today than racial bigotry because of progress Jefferson helped bring about.
by Cameron Addis via HNN on January 10, 2020
Street signs on the corner of Rosa L. Parks Avenue and North Jeff Davis Avenue.

Atlas of Southern Memory

An interactive map of public commemoration of the Civil War and the civil rights movement in the South.
by Caroline Klibanoff via Atlas of Southern Memory on December 31, 2019

The Original Southerners

American Indians, the Civil War, and Confederate memory.
by Malinda Maynor Lowery via Southern Cultures on November 27, 2019

The Legend of Big Ole

How one monument came to be at the center of Minnesota’s imagined white past.
by Rachel Boyle via Belt Magazine on November 14, 2019

The Civil Rights Leader ‘Almost Nobody Knows About’ Gets a Statue in the U.S. Capitol

At a ceremony Wednesday, leaders remembered the Ponca chief whose court case established that Native Americans were people.
by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on September 20, 2019

Who Speaks for Crazy Horse?

The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.
by Brooke Jarvis via The New Yorker on September 16, 2019

Moral Courage and the Civil War

Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present.
by Elizabeth D. Samet via The American Scholar on September 3, 2019

Althea Gibson, Who Smashed Racial Barriers in Tennis, Honored With Statue at U.S. Open

'It’s about time,' said former doubles partner Angela Buxton.
by Brigit Katz via Smithsonian on August 28, 2019
Damaged Confederate statue on pallet in warehouse.

A Confederate Statue Graveyard Could Help Bury The Old South

A proposal to follow the model several former Soviet States have pioneered, to deal with our own monuments to the Confederacy.
by Jordan Brasher, Derek H. Alderman via The Conversation on July 26, 2019
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