statues

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• SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser
  12/12/19
  

  'Utterly moved to be involved': Montgomery-born historian serves as model for Rosa Parks statue

  Dr. Kimberly Brown Pellum has spent her career studying black women’s history. So, when the Montgomery native and Florida A&M University history professor was approached last summer to serve as a model for a monument to legendary civil rights activist Rosa Parks, she didn’t hesitate to say yes.

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• SOURCE: AP
  12/11/19
  

  Monumental statue of black man defies Confederate monuments

  A massive bronze sculpture of a young black man with dreadlocks astride a muscular horse was permanently installed Tuesday in Virginia’s capital city, not far from one of the country’s most prominent displays of Confederate monuments. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/9/19
  

  An Art History Mystery with No Shortage of Sleuths

  Is a bronze statue discovered in France a 16th century Renaissance masterpiece or a (much less valuable) 17th century copy? Readers shared their theories, opinions and expertise.  

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  12/5/19
  

  'Human, vulnerable and perfect': New Rosa Parks exhibit shines light on civil rights legend

  The Rosa Parks collection includes 140 years of family history and approximately 10,000 items, according to curator Adrienne Cannon.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/20/19
  

  Confederate Statue in North Carolina Comes Down After 112 Years

  The statue’s removal came after months of “high emotions, division and even violence” in the small town of Pittsboro, a county official said.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/16/19
  

  New Statue Unsettles Italian City: Is It Celebrating a Poet or a Nationalist?

  Boasting a proud literary pedigree, Trieste is populated with statues. But none has provoked passions like that of Gabriele d’Annunzio, who inspired Fascism and briefly ruled his own state last century.

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• SOURCE: Quartz
  10/23/19
  

  The US has fewer than 400 statues of women—but that’s changing

  Activists and experts in the field sometimes call this gender gap in statues a marble or bronze ceiling.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  9/24/19
  

  How Do We Address a Statue of President Roosevelt That Affirms Racist Hierarchies?

  Almost two years after the fascist rally at Charlottesville around a mediocre statue of Robert E. Lee, the American Museum of Natural History has opened its exhibition Addressing the Statue.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/26/19
  

  A Confederate statue graveyard could help bury the Old South

  by Jordan Brasher and Derek H. Alderman

  If the aim of statue removal is to build a more racially just South, then, as many analysts have pointed out, putting these monuments in storage is a lost opportunity. 

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  5/26/2019
  

  Monumental women: Breaking the bronze ceiling

  Pam Elam and Coline Jenkins run the Monumental Women campaign. Their goal: to erect a monument in Central Park honoring women's suffrage pioneers Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  5/14/19
  

  What to Do With Richmond’s Confederate Statues

  Richmond’s Monument Avenue is lined with Confederate statues, but an exhibition filled with proposals to replace them struggles to find a road forward.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/8/19
  

  2 Arrested in Vandalism of Slave Memorial at University of North Carolina

  The memorial is dedicated to slaves and African-American workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• 3/17/19
  

  Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue: A Southern Unionist’s Viewpoint

  by Elizabeth Varon

  Elizabeth Van Lew was a Southerner who supported the Union. She--and other Southern Unionists--deepen our understanding of the Civil War and its legacies. 

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• SOURCE: CSU History Department
  3/13/19
  

  WATCH LIVE ONLINE: From Silent Sam to Phnom Pehn: Monuments and Memorials in History and Myth

  Information on a live online history lecture. Watch on March 13th!

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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: 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: Chronicle of Higher Ed
  8/24/18
  

  As UNC Issues 3 Arrest Warrants Over Confederate Statue’s Toppling, Board Member Says It Will Be Restored

  The three face misdemeanor charges of riot and defacing of a public monument.