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SOURCE: The New Republic
2/8/2023
It's Up to McCarthy to Remove Statues of Slavers from the Capitol
A third of the artworks in the Capitol depict slaveholders. Whether they're replaced with other works, possibly those celebrating liberators, is largely up to the new House Speaker.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/2/2023
When White Contractors Wouldn't Remove Confederate Statues, a Black One Did
Devon Henry didn't seek the job of removing a dozen Confederate memorials in Richmond, but local white-owned vendors refused the contracts. He has received death threats and wears a bulletproof vest at job sites.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/31/2022
Restored Victor Hugo Statue Vandalized by French Rightists Claiming "Wokeism" Run Amok
The statue in the author's birth city of Besançon has become a lightning rod for controversy after a restoration aimed at returning to the vision of Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow was seen as presenting the author as Black.
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SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
12/14/2022
Philly's Columbus Statue is Out of the Box—So is the Discussion About His Legacy
Historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries talks about controversial statues: one removed in Richmond, and one uncovered in Philadelphia.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/7/2022
The Troubling History of Arlington Cemetery's Confederate Monument
by Samantha Baskind
The monument misrepresents the history of the Confederacy, and is itself a document of the way that white supremacy enabled a national "reconciliation" after the Civil War.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
3/12/2022
Erin Thompson's "Smashing Statues": Tear 'Em All Down
How does taking down a statue relate to the more complicated work of eliminating the racist ideas and structures that put it up?
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/24/2022
Post Editors: Statue or No, Teddy Roosevelt's Complex Legacy is Still with Us
It's appropriate for Theodore Roosevelt's statue to be removed from its position as a figurehead for the Museum of Natural History, but just as appropriate for the statue to be housed in the new Roosevelt Presidential Library where TR's complicated legacy can be more fully addressed, say the Post's editorial board members.
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SOURCE: NPR
1/20/2022
Museum of Natural History in New York Removes Theodore Roosevelt Statue
While Roosevelt's support of natural history has been noted, museum officials acknowledged that the statue "communicates a racial hierarchy" that constitutes a darker side of the former president's legacy.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
1/5/2022
Bristol Protesters Cleared of Toppling Edward Colston Statue
"In a 10-day trial at Bristol crown court, the four defendants did not contest their actions on 7 June 2020 but sought to argue they were justified, because the statue was so offensive."
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SOURCE: Protean
12/17/2021
Dead Man Running (Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Jim Crow Blues Again)
by Ryan Zickgraf
Mobile's current municipal elections combined the bizarre with the bureaucratic and institutional politics of racism.
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/18/2021
Jefferson Statue to be Removed from NY City Council Chambers
"Annette Gordon-Reed, a Harvard Law School professor and a Jefferson expert, objected to the idea of taking down the Jefferson statue, but said that if it were to move to the New-York Historical Society, where she serves as a trustee, it would be a best-case scenario."
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SOURCE: NPR
10/14/2021
Mary McLeod Bethune Statue is Coming to the Capitol
Florida legislators unanimously approved Bethune to replace Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith in the Capitol statuary in 2018.
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SOURCE: nj.com
10/11/2021
How Our Hero Columbus Has Fallen
by Brian Regal
"Humans seem to need to have heroes, but we’re often not sure what to do with them. We want them to embody high ideals, but they rarely do."
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/29/2021
White, Male, and, for Now, Still on Pedestals
Paul Farber, director of Monument Lab, said, “We must see monuments as way stations that reflect our values. This is a generational process.”
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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: Los Angeles Times
8/10/2021
Greenwood, Mississippi Asks What Comes After Confederate Monuments
As political pressure brings down Confederate statues, the question of what replaces them becomes more urgent but remains unanswered.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/9/2021
History Was Never Subject to Democratic Control
by Helen Lewis
Neither the local economic elite who put up Edward Colston's statue in Bristol, England nor the activists who tore it down operated with a public mandate. What are the prospects for democratic and consensual public history?
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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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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
7/1/2021
The Statue of Chief Justice Taney Never Belonged in the Capitol
by Corey M. Brooks
“If a man,” famed Massachusetts radical Charles Sumner asserted, “has done evil during his life he must not be complimented in marble.” Instead Sumner demanded “the name of Taney … be hooted down the page of history.”
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