#Monument

Timothy Burke

bubbaprog

In actual good news, a monument to traitors and terrorists who waged war against our Republic in the name of white supremacy came down tonight. Another monument to traitors and

Silent Sam's Reckoning

sams_reckoning

Opposition to Confederate monuments is not new. They've been challenged, defaced, vandalized and re-contextualized ever since they started going up. Here are just a few examples...1/ Pittsboro, NC, 1907 -

Andrew Carter

_andrewcarter

I spent some time today reading The NandO archives from May, 1895, when the Confederate Monument was dedicated here. Read coverage of that and from the days surrounding the dedication.

Mario Arulthas

MarioArul

Sinhalese who are cheering this on - there are a few statues and monuments celebrating the genocide and its perpetrators in various locations across the North-East. Please feel free to

🦒 Espo

Esposition

THREADRecently, Governor @dougducey called for a “public process” to decide the fate of the confederate monument at Arizona’s Capitol. Here’s my best attempt at piecing together some of the history.

Dr Rebecca Senior

rebeccalsenior

Second session of my #monuments research series is LIVE at - http://nottingham.ac.uk/go/CRVCmonuments. It explores monuments in the contexts of #socialjustice movements in the 2010s. Please share! Also a few of

Jake Breadman

hlafweard

I’ve seen a lot of discussion on monuments recently and I want to write down some of my thoughts on the Watson Monument in downtown St. Catharines and why I

Reed Watson

reedtwatson

Alabama and national media (@JohnArchibald @WarOnDumb @JohnHammontree @chrislhayes @maddow @JoyceWhiteVance)-- I want to tell you about a compelling story developing in Florence, AL. We're trying to get a confederate monument

Brian Behnken

HistoryBrian

So tweets about this Iowa Civil War monument, called Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, have been making the rounds on Twitter. 1/11 Er, rather, tweets about this statue, a part of

Andy Obuoforibo

andyRoidO

Hi, Kids! Wanna know why the Washington Monument changes colors midway up?Once upon a time, there was a Political Party that hated immigration, and ran stuff into the ground.No, not

Dissident Peasant

JeffHisDudeness

As both a @SamSeder guy and A History Guy I'd like to reiterate something he mentioned: monuments are ultimately unreliable representations of what they depict, but they nearly always reveal

Jimmy Heidt

JimmyHeidt9

#CLST6 For this #RR9 post, I will be focusing on the first public monument to appear, near the middle of the open square, called the Altar of the Twelve Gods

African American Policy Forum

AAPolicyForum

In June, Sen. Louise Lucas, leader of the Virginia Senate, called for Portsmouth police chief to be fired after the Portsmouth police tried to arrest police protesters. Now that very

Angus Johnston

studentactivism

If city councils and private institutions had had the power to remove Confederate statues at the beginning of this year, there would have been a lot fewer Confederate statues available

Katiya

XKasheKatiya

This Day in South African History~ 16 December:1. First celebrated as ‘Dingane’s Day,’ when the Voortrekkers triumphed against Dingane’s army at the Battle of Blood River (Ncome) on 16 December

Dr. Sarah Parcak

indyfromspace

PSA For ANYONE who might be interested in how to pull down an obelisk* safely from an Egyptologist who never ever in a million years thought this advice might come

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