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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

Monument Wars

This exhibit explores discussions about what we choose to memorialize – and why.

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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