monuments

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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.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/17/19
  

  Is a Planned Monument to Women’s Rights Racist?

  What is forward-moving about reiterating an error in an effort to correct for it?

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/15/19
  

  Judge Overturns Alabama Law Preventing Removal of Confederate Monuments

  The 10-page ruling issued late Monday by Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Graffeo said a 2017 state law barring the removal or alteration of historical monuments wrongly violated the free speech rights of local communities.

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• 2/3/19
  

  Why Do Few People Know the History of Northern Slavery?

  by Marc Howard Ross

  How and why was the enslavement of tens of thousands of people in the region forgotten, and how and why has it recently been partially recovered? 

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• SOURCE: AP
  1/11/19
  

  Texas set to remove Confederate plaque from state Capitol

  “Why shouldn’t we be able to talk about the monuments on the Capitol grounds or anything else,” Johnson said. “I don’t think it’s a conversation we should be afraid to have, not in 2019 in America, in Texas.”

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  10-14-18
  

  America's few Latino civil rights monuments languish, forgotten and decaying

  A makeshift memorial in New Mexico dedicated to Hispanic Union soldiers during the Battle of Glorieta Pass "looks like just a taco stand, without any tacos."

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8-6-18
  

  New Virginia Monument Will Pay Tribute to Hundreds of Historic Women

  The monument features 12 bronze statues and a wall etched with 400 additional names of women who played an important role in shaping Virginia’s history.

• SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
  7-22-13
  

  Cultural heritage activists warn against the destruction of Russian monuments

  Cultural heritage activists in Moscow, St Petersburg and across the rest of Russia are warning that a string of important architectural monuments are falling prey to a dangerous combination of Soviet-style brutality and capitalist greed, and might soon be irrevocably lost.Landmarks such as the Bolkonsky House, which inspired scenes in Leo Tolstoy’s novels, and a seminal 1850s roundhouse railway depot that inspired similar depots in Europe and the US are hanging by a thread, they say, or have, for all practical purposes, been destroyed.Their warning calls also underscore a growing activism, or at least a sense of an active preservationist community linked by social networking resources such as Facebook.When Yevgeny Sosedov—a 25-year-old preservationist who has been battling for years to save Arkhangelskoye, the Yusupov family estate—recently raced to save an historic avenue of linden trees nearby, he was surprised by the intensity of the reaction....

• SOURCE: Knoxville News
  7-1-13
  

  Manhattan Project park clears hurdle

  The campaign to create a national park dedicated to the once-top-secret Manhattan Project is moving through Congress, but supporters aren’t ready to declare victory just yet.“It is by no means a fait accompli,” says Nancy Tinker, senior field officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation.Still it’s the closest the park has come yet to being a done deal.The U.S. House approved in June the $552.1 billion defense authorization bill, which included funds to establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which would include sites in Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, N.M., and Hanford, Wash....