statues

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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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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/21/2021
  

  Some Representations of Native Americans Erase their History

  by Hayley Negrin

  "Visibly racist and inaccurate representations of Indigenous people in public spaces send a message to Indigenous people everywhere that they are not in control of their own destiny, that they are not permitted to define themselves. The process of conquest continues."

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• SOURCE: WHNT
  3/4/2021
  

  Alabama Lawmakers Reject Bill Allowing Flexibility On Confederate Monument

  The 2017 law, which was approved as some cities began taking down Confederate monuments, forbids the removal or alteration of monuments more than 40 years old. Violations carry a $25,000 fine.

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• SOURCE: Open Democracy
  3/2/2021
  

  The UK Government’s Obsession with ‘Culture Wars’ is a Threat to Democracy

  In the British debate over the public history of colonialism and empire, are conservative government ministers the ones really engaged in "cancel culture"? 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/21/2020
  

  Gen. Robert E. Lee Statue Removed From U.S. Capitol

  Virginia will no longer be represented in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall by the military leader of the Confederacy. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/16/2020
  

  Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas Cleared of Charges of Conspiring to Topple Confederate Monument

  Virginia state senator L. Louise Lucas, who is Black, was cleared of charges related to this summer's protests against public monuments to the Confederacy. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/12/2020
  

  A Naked Statue for a Feminist Hero?

  "Ms. Hambling’s sculptural woman — perched above a plunge of mountainous form — seems to embody the epic saga that so many women have endured for their voices to be heard."

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• 11/15/2020
  

  Reckoning with Marcus Whitman and the Memorialization of Conquest

  by Cassandra Tate

  The same period that saw the public affirmation of the Confederate Lost Cause myth saw a proliferation of monuments that portrayed the conquest of the indigenous people of the west as virtuous pioneering. The case of Marcus Whitman shows a national reckoning is in order.

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  10/12/2020
  

  Portland Protesters Topple Statues of Lincoln, Roosevelt in 'Day of Rage'

  Droves of protesters in Portland, Ore., took down the statues of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln on Sunday in demonstrations that had reportedly been billed online as “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage” by organizers.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  

  Four Principles to Guide Us on Whose Statues Should Topple and Whose Should Remain

  Kevin M. Levin, Lalane Schmidt, Kevin Gover and George Derek Musgrove are among the scholars offering perspective on how local community deliberations about problematic memorials should proceed. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9/20/2020
  

  These Confederate Statues were Removed. But Where Did they Go?

  While many localities have moved swiftly to remove Confederate memorials from public ground, the ultimate disposition of many of the statues is still to be determined. 

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  8/28/2020
  

  Why the Fight Over Statues Will Never End (video)

  Art historian and "art crime" expert Erin Thompson offers insight into the history of iconoclasm and why social change makes arguments about statues and public memorials inevitable.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  8/23/2020
  

  The Banality of Evocation: How to Remember a Feminist Movement That Hasn’t Ended

  by Erin L. Thompson

  The success of the organization Monumental Women in placing statues of Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Central Park in fact illustrates that the struggle for women's power is very much ongoing. 

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• SOURCE: ProPublica
  7/31/2020
  

  4 Perspectives on the Christopher Columbus Statues

  Several stakeholders are interviewed about Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's decision to temporarily remove two statues of Christopher Columbus from public space.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Lincoln, Cass, and Daniel Chester French: Homely Politicians Divided by Politics, United through Art

  by Harold Holzer

  In the age before the glare of television and instantaneous photography were relentlessly aimed at our leaders, politicians could succeed even if they looked like Lewis Cass. Or Abraham Lincoln.