How should opposing armies be commemorated on a battlefield? Gettysburg offers an especially interesting example of today’s debates over Confederate monuments.
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Attitudes towards Kwame Nkrumah have shifted from veneration to confrontation and destruction and, finally, to more subtle forms of remembrance.
History is not being destroyed but the way people remember is being changed.
The legacy of the Holocaust stretches beyond a handful of death camps and ghettos. Stumbling Stones hope to help people remember that
The suburban-built environment whitewashes the violence and theft on which Canada is built.
Contending with Canada’s history means acknowledging different versions of the truth. Toppling statues won’t resolve the wrongs of the past — education is an important part of democracy and inclusion.
As the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration of a pandemic approaches, it might be time to consider how our modern age wants to remember this plague.
US monuments and memorials have overlooked frontline workers and people of color affected by past epidemics. Will we repeat history?
Once stripped of their symbolic power, problem monuments offer what educators call ‘teachable moments,’ helping people assess society’s current values and compare them with what mattered in the past.
Monuments are testaments to how a society wants to remember. Now is the time to ask which monuments can withstand introspection. Artists are opening those conversations – sometimes hilariously.
Statues and monuments have been used to present a revisionist history in which empire was great while omitting the violence they subvertly celebrate.
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Assistant Professor of History Peter and Bonnie McCausland Fellow of History, University of South Carolina
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Visiting Professor of History, University of Reading / Worcester College Oxford, University of Reading
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Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Geography, Oklahoma State University
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, California State University, San Bernardino
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Professor of Curriculum & Instruction, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
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Professor of Social History, University of Bristol
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PhD Candidate, University of Tennessee
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Nottingham
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
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Adjunct Lecturer in History, Algoma University
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Associate professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
