Category: Monuments
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…
National Park Service Handbook on Reconstruction
The National Park Service has a handbook out on the Reconstruction Era. Here is a link to it. It is similar to the familiar NPS…
When Confederates Erased History in New Orleans by Replacing Abolitionist Alexander Hamilton With Slavery Supporter
Hamilton Square in the Carrollton section of New Orleans was established as a public space way back in 1833. The Square is one of several…
Kommemorating the Klan’s Birthplace With a Backwards Plaque in Pulaski, Tn,
Six Confederate veterans created the Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, in Pulaski, Tennessee. Or maybe they didn’t. Much about the early months of…