Category: Monuments
“Gone With the Wind” Is a Confederate Monument Says Historian Nina Silber
Historian Nina Silber has an interesting article in today’s Washington Post titled ‘Gone With the Wind’ is also a Confederate monument, but on film instead…
University of South Carolina Honored Its First Black Professor (1873) With a Statue
Richard T. Greener holds two academic “firsts.” He was the first African American to graduate from Harvard (1870) and he was the first black professor…
Monument to United States Colored Troops Erected in Ohio
The number of monuments dedicated to United States Colored Troops (USCT) grew by one this week when a new monument was erected in Ferncliff Cemetery…
General Grant in Manhattan: Photo Tour of Grant’s Tomb
Grant’s Tomb July 15, 2018 Michele and I headed to Manhattan a while ago to visit the General Grant National Memorial, better known as…
New Pavilion to Victims of Lynching from 1865 to 1877 Opened in Montgomery, Ala.
The Equal Justice Initiative (EIJ) has attracted a lot of attention over the last several years for its marking of lynching sites throughout the United…
Tourism Up at Andy Johnson Home in Response to Current Impeachment Crisis
The current impeachment crisis has been good for tourism to the home of the first president ever impeached, Andrew Johnson. You can listen to NPR’s…
Woodrow Wilson Home in South Carolina to Include Story of Reconstruction and Jim Crow
The Woodrow Wilson Home in Columbia, South Carolina, is reopening after a years-long retoration. The home was once used as a shrine to the late…
Book Review: LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman
LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2019) $30.00 Hardcover $14.99 Kindle Learning…
Franklin, Tennessee to Unveil Monument to Enslaved People on Nov. 9, 2019
Franklin, Tennessee has been engaged in a remarkable process of uncovering and displaying its history. Last month, the mid-sized city installed historical plaques explaining its…
A New Monument to Emancipation in a Small Virginia Town
Hundreds of Southern towns and cities erected Confederate statues in the decades after the Civil War. Almost no statues or monuments marked the military service…