memorials

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• 9/19/2021
  

  Richmond's Lee Statue Has Come Down. What About Confederate Memorials in Cemeteries?

  by Jeffrey Smith

  The statue of Robert E. Lee on Richmond’s Monument Avenue finally came down, to both fanfare and controversy. But some Confederate monuments are even more politically loaded—the ones where we bury the dead.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9/13/2021
  

  Tuskegee, Alabama Confederate Memorial at Center of Lawsuit in Majority-Black City

  The presence of the statue in the city, home of the historic Tuskegee University and training place of the famed World War II aviation heroes, has angered locals for decades. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/14/2021
  

  The History that Shaped Memorials to Fallen Service Members

  by Jeffrey Smith

  The emergence of industrial-scale slaughter in the battles of the Civil War pushed the military to establish national cemeteries and created the background for today's ritualized ceremonies of remembrance. 

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• 9/12/2021
  

  9/11's Memorials and the Politics of Historical Memory

  by Marita Sturken

  Major 9/11 memorials try to fix the public memory on a moment of national unity that, 20 years later, seems illusory. Other memorials point the way to using the force of memory to encourage critical reflection on nationalism.

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• SOURCE: Santa Fe New Mexican
  9/6/2021
  

  Santa Fe's Historian Looks Ahead from Controversial Past

  City Historian Valerie Rangel hopes to engage residents of Santa Fe with the complex and difficult histories of colonialism and racism that still shape the city and region. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/29/2021
  

  95% of Capitol Sculptures Depict Men. Will That Change Soon?

  Sen. Amy Klobuchar is a leader of a group of Senators who hope to increase the representation of women in the Capitol statuary. 

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• 8/1/2021
  

  Charlottesville's Lee Statue Belongs in a Museum

  by John Troast

  "Charlottesville’s recently removed statue of Robert E. Lee is not a statue of a man, it is a statue of a myth," and the history of that dangerous myth needs to be preserved.

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• SOURCE: Indyweek
  7/28/2021
  

  Where They Stood: A Photojournalist Documents the Nation's Fallen Confederate Monuments

  "Last fall, I began to document the Confederate monuments that have been taken down since George Floyd’s death. In April, I started a five-week, 7,300-mile road trip throughout the South to continue this work."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/9/2021
  

  Charlottesville Removes Robert E. Lee Statue at Center of White Nationalist Rally

  “I’m really happy it’s a boring morning, and boring means that no bad things happened,” says UVA historian John Edwin Mason.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/28/2021
  

  Twenty Years after 9/11, its Memorialization Remains Contested

  by John Bodnar

  "How people respond to traumatic events and the pain of others, of course, is always unpredictable. But such responses have consequences."

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• 5/16/2021
  

  The Rebuilt Berlin Palace Embodies the Tensions of the City's History and Future

  by Barney White-Spunner

  While Berliners have incorporated the city's notorious wall into museums and public art, restoring the site of the Berliner Schloss of the Hohenzollerns and then the Palast der Republic of the East German government has been much more contentious. The Humboldt Forum has been criticized, but its design and reception exemplify the tensions inherent in democracy.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/8/2021
  

  Alamo Renovation Gets Stuck over Arguments about Slavery

  Renovations to the Alamo have hit a predictable political snag, as conservative Texans insist that the site maintain its denial about the slaveholding of many of the Alamo's defenders or the pro-slavery ambitions of the Republic of Texas and threaten to block bills encouraging more historically informed exhibits. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/30/2021
  

  Some Statues Tell Lies. This One Tells the Truth

  Washington State has replaced one of its statues in the US Capitol Statuary hall, that celebrated missionary Marcus Whitman, with one honoring Native American treaty rights advocate Billy Frank, Jr. 

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• SOURCE: UVA Today
  4/7/2021
  

  A Closer Look at the Design and Details of the New Memorial to Enslaved Laborers

  "We know so much about Jefferson – we even know what he ate on July 3, 1803 – but he and all those at UVA were surrounded for over 65 years by a community of more than 4,000 people that we know little about."

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  4/12/2021
  

  Black Protesters Have Been Rallying Against Confederate Statues for Generations

  by Karen L. Cox

  The movement to remove monuments and memorials to the Confederacy and historical figures with ties to racism or slavery is not new; it should be recognized as part of a longstanding effort by African Americans to challenge the public veneration of white supremacy. 

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• SOURCE: WWLTV
  4/9/2021
  

  Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair Stolen from Alabama Cemetery Found in New Orleans, 2 Arrested

  The chair was recovered in New Orleans, and two suspects have been arrested with a third at large. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/8/2021
  

  Who are 'White Lies Matter’? Meet the Group that Says it Turned a Stolen Confederate Memorial into a Toilet

  "We are leaderless in a sense. There is no head honcho, and we keep it that way for a very good reason."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/8/2021
  

  San Francisco Schools Will Keep Jefferson, Lincoln and Washington Names

  "In this case, officials said the reckoning had gone too far, with parents calling the decision to rename 44 schools embarrassing and 'a caricature of what people think liberals in San Francisco do'.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/6/2021
  

  Stolen Confederate Monument will Become a 'Toilet' Unless ‘White Lies Matter’ Demands are Met, Group Vows

  The group claiming responsibility has issued a ransom demand: the United Daughters of the Confederacy can secure the return of the chair by flying a banner quoting Black radical Assata Shakur over its Richmond, Virginia headquarters. 

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• SOURCE: NewsChannel 5 (Nashville)
  3/17/2021
  

  Bill Would Remove all Members of Tennessee Historical Commission

  Some conservative legislators are upset with the state Historical Commission's recent decision to remove a memorial to slave trader and Ku Klux Klan founder Nathan Bedford Forrest from the Tennessee capitol.