monuments

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• SOURCE: WAMU
  11/9/2020
  

  The Smithsonian Will Open A National Native American Veterans Memorial In D.C. Wednesday

  The National Native American Veterans Memorial will open with virtual programming, including a tour and video tribute, on Wednesday, November 11.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/8/2020
  

  Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy?

  Removing Confederate monuments from public grounds to museums is easier said than done, drawing on scarce resources and pleasing few parties in the conflict over memorializing the CSA. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/5/2020
  

  Mellon Foundation to Spend $250 Million to Reimagine Monuments

  “The beauty of monuments as a rubric is, it’s really a way of asking, ‘How do we say who we are? How do we teach our history in public places?’” Elizabeth Alexander, the foundation’s president, said.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/28/2020
  

  Amid the Monument Wars, a Rally for ‘More History’

  “Historians have different views on taking down statues,” said Gregory Downs, a professor at the University of California, Davis, and one of the organizers. “But that debate doesn’t really capture what historians do, which is to bring more history.”

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• SOURCE: Outside
  9/28/2020
  

  The Problem of Confederate Statues on U.S. Public Lands

  Governments have recently addressed the problem of memorializing the Confederacy on public land. Why should monuments in cemeteries like Arlington or on Civil War battlefields be treated differently? 

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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: The New Yorker
  9/12/2020
  

  My Local Confederate Monument

  by Casey Cep

  The author examines the history and politics of the last remaining Confederate monument on public lands, other than battlefields and cemeteries, in the state of Maryland. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/13/2020
  

  Eisenhower Memorial, Delayed by Design Disputes, Opens This Week

  The opening of the Eisenhower monument in 2020 may make many mindful of the contrast between Ike and the current head of the Republican Party, although the memorial's design has already sparked a bitter battle that fits the temper of our times. 

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• SOURCE: Journal of the Civil War Era
  8/25/2020
  

  Civil War History: A Call to Action

  The Journal of the Civil War Era urges historians to mobilize on September 26 to correct the misinformation delivered by public monuments and memorials.   

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  8/31/2020
  

  Voltaire Spread Darkness, Not Enlightenment. France Should Stop Worshipping Him.

  by Nabila Ramdani

  Nabila Ramdani argues that the French Enlightenment thinker's abstract defenses of free speech and inquiry should not overshadow the concrete content of what he said and wrote, which included historically influential racist and antisemitic bigotry cloaked in the language of reason and science.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/2020
  

  A Guide to Every Person Whose Name Could be Removed from D.C. Buildings or Sites, from the Famous to the Forgotten

  A Washington, D.C. government committee issued recommendations for reassessing many public facilities named for historical figures. In some cases, the case against the figure is might need some explanation. 

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• SOURCE: Washingtonian
  9/1/2020
  

  DC Releases Long List of Facilities to Be Renamed, Relocated, or Contextualized

  A commission convened by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser recommends that the District rename many schools and city facilities that honor historical figures associated with slavery and racism, and asks the city government to pressure the federal government to do the same with federal properties in the district. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/2/2020
  

  Historians: No, to Removing Jefferson, Washington Monuments. Yes, to Contextualizing Them.

  Historians Annette Gordon-Reed, Alexis Coe, and Seth Bruggeman describe a way forward out of the controversy over memorials to slaveholding American leaders.  

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  9/1/2020
  

  Cop Who Charged Black Senator With ‘Injuring’ Confederate Statues Nurtured A Long Grudge

  The story of the effort by Portsmouth, Virginia police to prosecute a local state legislator for conspiring to "injure" Confederate monuments continues to develop. 

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• SOURCE: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
  8/27/2020
  

  Amazing Disgrace: Full Frontal With Samantha Bee on Confederate Monuments (video)

  The humorist examines the controversy over removing Confederate monuments and how we remember and teach history. 

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• 8/30/2020
  

  Gettysburg’s First Confederate Monument

  by David K. Graham

  The dedication in 1886 of a monument to the Maryland 2nd Confederate Regiment at Gettysburg launched the movement by southern partisans to lay claim to the site of the Union victory as a monument to national reconciliation. The Grand Army of the Republic organization wasn't buying it then, and we shouldn't today.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  8/18/2020
  

  Black Virginia State Senator Charged With 'Injuring' Confederate Monument

  “It’s deeply troubling that on the verge of Virginia passing long-overdue police reform, the first Black woman to serve as our Senate Pro Tempore is suddenly facing highly unusual charges,” said Gov. Ralph Northam.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/18/2020
  

  Cops Who Charged Civil Rights Leaders With Felonies Try To Sideline Progressive Prosecutor

  The Portsmouth, VA Police Department has thrown the book at public officials they believe supported protests which led to the destruction of Confederate monuments. They also appear to be working to prevent a progressive Black state prosecutor from handling the case by claiming she is a witness to the events. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/13/2020
  

  Maryland County Votes to Keep Statue Honoring Confederate Soldiers

  The “Talbot Boys” memorial is thought to be the only Confederate memorial on state property in Maryland.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/14/2020
  

  He Set out to Show His Son the D.C. Area’s 68 Civil War Forts. Protests Made it More than a Diversion.

  D.C.'s Black Lives Matter protests taught historian Graham H. Cornwell and his son that the Civil War cannot be studied in abstraction.