monuments

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/11/20
  

  A stolen slave auction plaque shook Charlottesville. But the confession was the real shock.

  “This is called reparations, as far as I’m concerned,” he said when asked if he was willing to go to jail.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/6/20
  

  When White Women Wanted a Monument to Black ‘Mammies’

  by Alison M. Parker

  A 1923 fight shows Confederate monuments are about power, not Southern heritage.

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• SOURCE: History Today
  1/2/20
  

  Carving our names on great monuments is a millennia-old tradition, but why do we do it?

  by Laura Aitken-Burt

  The earliest graffiti of a person’s name on a monument has been identified by the historian Lionel Casson in a cave at Wadi Hammamat in Egypt – the name of Hena, an official under Menutuhotep III in 2000 BC, is chiselled into the sandstone alongside a list of his achievements.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/25/19
  

  New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground

  The city’s plan to commemorate women, people of color and others overlooked in the past is leading to fights over who should be honored and how.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/14/19
  

  There Are No Nostalgic Nazi Memorials

  by Susan Neiman

  Americans could learn from how drastically German society has moved away from the nadir of its history.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/21/19
  

  Historians Raise Concerns Over Central Park’s Suffragist Monument

  “If Sojourner Truth is added,” the letter reads, “it could obscure the substantial differences between white and black suffrage activists, and would be misleading.”

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/13/19
  

  Controversial Monument to Women’s Suffrage Redesigned to Include Sojourner Truth

  The abolitionist and women’s rights activist will join Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in the proposed Central Park sculpture that had previously been accused of racism and whitewashing history.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  8/1/2019
  

  What’s in a Name? Meet the Government Employees Who Make the Call

  A little-known patchwork of bureaucratic boards are tasked with deciding when to change the names of geographic places

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/15/19
  

  Angered by This Roosevelt Statue? A Museum Wants Visitors to Weigh In

  Conversation about monuments has reached a fever pitch, and the city was split on this one. The American Museum of Natural History is opening an exhibition on it.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  5/26/2019
  

  Monumental women: Breaking the bronze ceiling

  Pam Elam and Coline Jenkins run the Monumental Women campaign. Their goal: to erect a monument in Central Park honoring women's suffrage pioneers Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/14/19
  

  A Whitewashed Monument to Women’s Suffrage

  by Brent Staples

  A sculpture that’s expected to be unveiled in Central Park next year ignores the important contributions of black women.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/22/19
  

  How New York’s new monument whitewashes the women’s rights movement

  by Martha S. Jones

  It offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  3/25/19
  

  ‘Loyal Slave’ Monuments Tell a Racist Lie About American History

  by Kali Holloway

  These monuments—nearly all of them still standing—prop up the fantasy that slaves were happy, loyal, and devoted to those who enslaved them.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/17/19
  

  Atlanta’s Civil War Monument, Minus the Pro-Confederate Bunkum

  A new exhibition of a gigantic painting uses historical fact to dispel Lost Cause mythology.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  3/4/19
  

  ‘Hot Lincoln’ Stands in Long Line of Attractive Presidential Sculptures

  Before hot Lincoln, there was ripped Washington, nude Napoleon and muscular ancient Greek sculptures  

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/18/19
  

  Welcome to (possibly) the only town in America that wants a new Civil War memorial

  The proposed memorial could be the only one in the nation to include both a president and his assassin.

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• SOURCE: Dallas News
  2/2/19
  

  As a historian, my instinct was to preserve Confederate monuments, but I changed my mind

  by W. Marvin Dulaney

  After taking a closer look at them and the historical lies that they present and perpetuate, and the reverence that they hold upon the nation's landscape I was convinced that all of them need to come down. 

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• SOURCE: Education Week
  1/22/19
  

  In Eight States, Public Schools Are Named for Segregationists

  Schools and other public structures that memorialize leaders of the Confederacy have gained intense attention and generated fierce arguments recently.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/21/19
  

  On MLK Day, descendants of Lee, Stonewall Jackson urge Va. to halt Confederate tributes

  Descendants of two Confederate generals appeared in the Virginia Senate on Monday to show their support for Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who days earlier sat out a Republican senator’s ode to Robert E. Lee.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/20/19
  

  Fate of Confederate Monuments Is Stalled by Competing Legal Battles

  Almost 154 years after the end of the Civil War, the country is still quarreling — in state capitols and courtrooms, on college campuses and around town squares — over how, or whether, to commemorate the side that lost.