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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.
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7/26/2020
Let Us Now Remove Famous Men
by Calvin Schermerhorn
Should the statues remain up, doing the quiet work of reinforcing white supremacy while we get to work dismantling the interlocking components of structural racism? Or are the statues part of a 400-year history of violence against African-descended people that needs urgent attention and rectification?
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SOURCE: New York Times
7/15/2020
Statue of Black Protester Is Raised in Place of Bristol Slave Trader
The debate over what should permanently replace the Colston statue has percolated since last month. Historians have suggested a statue of Paul Stephenson, a Black activist who organized a successful boycott of a Bristol bus company in the 1960s.
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SOURCE: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
7/11/2020
As Monuments Tumble, Are We ‘Erasing’ History? Historians Say No
‘Monuments do a very poor job in talking about history,’ says history professor Hillary Green.
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SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
7/8/2020
Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History
These monuments were installed as symbols of white supremacy during periods of U.S. history when Black Americans’ civil rights were aggressively under attack.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
6/29/2020
Confederates in the Capitol
by William Hogeland
Even as the United States declined to enforce the Constitution in the former Confederate states, demolishing black citizens’ lives and liberty, first Lee and then the ten other Confederate statues arrived in the hall, with others that have since been replaced, and were embraced by the collection. The whole federal government approved.
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SOURCE: Harvard Magazine
6/29/2020
Calhoun-Fall
by Peter H. Wood
"When word spread that the Charleston City Council had voted unanimously to remove the domineering figure from his skyscraping column, I thought of a comment Walt Whitman recorded at the end of the Civil War. After Confederate forces had surrendered at Appomattox Court House, the poet overheard a Union soldier observe that the true monuments to Calhoun were the wasted farms and gaunt chimneys scattered over the South."
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SOURCE: Times of Israel
6/30/2020
St. Louis’s Statue of Pius XII: A Double-Standard
by Eunice G. Pollack
If Yale has renamed a residential college named for John C. Calhoun and Princeton will cease to name its public policy school after Woodrow Wilson, the Jesuit St. Louis University should consider evidence of Pope Pius XII's actions in the face of the Holocaust and remove his statue from campus.
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