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Robert E. Lee Memorial covered in graffiti and projections and surrounded by protesters.

The Racism of Confederate Monuments Extends to Voter Suppression

GOP-led state legislatures have not only prevented voters from exercising their rights as citizens, they have usurped local control to remove monuments legally.
by Karen L. Cox via Karen L. Cox Blog on June 30, 2020
A man walking by graffiti on a white wall that reads "Why do we have to keep telling you black lives matter?"

What the Protesters Tagging Historic Sites Get Right About the Past

Places of memory up and down the East Coast also witnessed acts of resistance and oppression.
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via Smithsonian on June 26, 2020
Part of the pedestal of a monument, inscribed with the words "Bright angels come and guard our sleeping heroes."

The Even Uglier Truth Behind Athens Confederate Monument

It was intended to be a tool of political power, sending a message against Black voting and serving as a gathering point for the Ku Klux Klan.
by Scott Reynolds Nelson via Muster on June 23, 2020
A man adjusts a protest sign at the base of the Confederate memorial known as the “Lost Cause” in Decatur, Ga.
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Removing Lost Cause Monuments Is The First Step in Dismantling White Supremacy

African American activists have long coupled these efforts with fighting against racist laws and racial violence.
by Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders via Made By History on June 19, 2020
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Monument Wars

This exhibit explores discussions about what we choose to memorialize – and why.
Public art featuring silhouettes of enslaved people.

What Do We Want History to Do to Us?

Zadie Smith on Kara Walker, blackness and public art.
by Zadie Smith via New York Review of Books on February 6, 2020

Higher Education's Reckoning with Slavery

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.
by Leslie M. Harris via Academe on January 1, 2020
The candidates for Miss America 2020 walk in dresses and heels.
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Why We Should Say Goodbye to the Miss America Pageant

The event originally borrowed sashes and pageantry from suffragists — whose vision for women we should honor instead.
by Kimberly A. Hamlin via Made By History on December 19, 2019

How to Forget

A review of Lewis Hyde’s “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past.”
by Sebastian Stockman via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 14, 2019

Hollow Words

Exploring John Cleves Symmes Jr.’s obsession with a hollow Earth.
by Laura Leavitt via The Smart Set on January 7, 2019
Robert E. Lee surrendering to Ulysses Grant.
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Why Some White Americans see Racial Equality as Oppression

White victimhood's roots in the Civil War.
by Martha Hodes via Made By History on August 27, 2018

On Statues, History, and Historians

A case study from Texas in how Lost Cause mythology was promoted and reified.
by Rich Heyman via Process: A Blog for American History on March 8, 2018

The Painful History of a Confederate Monument Tells Itself

Haunting archival footage of Stone Mountain's creation.
by Emily Buder via The Atlantic on December 1, 2017

The Ruin: Roosevelt Island’s Smallpox Hospital

An inside look at a forgotten Northeast epicenter of smallpox treatment.
by Selin Thomas via The Paris Review on October 30, 2017

How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History

The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War.
by Coleman Lowndes via Vox on October 25, 2017
The Old House Chamber has been used as National Statuary Hall since July 1864.

A Senator Speaks Out Against Confederate Monuments… in 1910

Alone in his stand, Weldon Heyburn despised that Robert E. Lee would be memorialized with a statue in the U.S. Capitol.
by Cynthia R. Greenlee via Smithsonian on October 18, 2017

What Do We Do With Our Dead?

Our mortuary conventions reveal a lot about our relation to the past.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on October 16, 2017
Calhoun College building at Yale University.

Don’t Repress the Past

Another way to look at controversial historical figures.
by James Livingston via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 20, 2015
Lewis and Clark expedition, with Sacagawea whitened out in the center.

How The West Was Wrong: The Mystery Of Sacagawea

Sacagawea is a symbol for everything from Manifest Destiny to women’s rights to American diversity. Except we don't know much about her.
by Natalie Shure via BuzzFeed News on October 11, 2015
Fats Domino's restored white piano in a museum in New Orleans.

An Object Lesson: What The Restoration of Fats Domino's Piano Means to New Orleans

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, the legend’s showpiece symbolizes the city's resilience.
by Mary Niall Mitchell via The Atlantic on August 26, 2015
Illustration of grave robbing

Body Snatchers of Old New York

In the 1780s, medical schools used cadavers stolen from the cemeteries of slaves.
by Bess Lovejoy via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 13, 2013
Drawings of George Washington

His Highness

George Washington scales new heights.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on September 20, 2010

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