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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?