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Andrew M. Shanken

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Homing Devices: Women’s Home Planning Scrapbooks, 1920s—1950s

Women on the homefront planned future homes with scrapbooks, blending wartime duty with dreams of postwar prosperity and modern comforts.

by Andrew M. Shanken via Platform on July 22, 2024
Monuments with Mission Creep

On “all wars” memorials.

by Andrew M. Shanken via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 26, 2022
How Many Pandemic Memorials Does it Take to Remember a Pandemic?

Calls for Covid-19 memorials echo Pericles' Athenian moratorium, prompting reflection on the appropriateness of commemoration for ongoing crises.

by Andrew M. Shanken via Platform on August 29, 2022

The Everyday Life of Memorials

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“The Caring Hand,” by Eva Oertli and Beat Huber, sculpture of a hand holding a tree.

Bryan Stevenson Reclaims the Monument, in the Heart of the Deep South

The civil-rights attorney has created a sculpture park, indicting the city of Montgomery—a former capital of the domestic slave trade.

by Doreen St. Félix via The New Yorker on March 25, 2024

Chart of when Confederate monuments and namings occurred, with peaks in the 1910s and the 1960s.

Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy

A Southern Poverty Law Center study identified over 1,500 publicly-displayed symbols of the Confederacy in the South and beyond.

via Southern Poverty Law Center on February 1, 2022

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