How do monuments shape our historical memories? What narratives do they give voice to? Whose values do they privilege? These questions and more are shaping the conversation we are currently having about who deserves to be commemorated and how
San Francisco's Arts Commission wants a public monument honoring poet Maya Angelou. It's part of an effort to fix the fact that just 2 percent of public sculptures in the city honor women. But the com...Show More
All across the country, protestors have been tearing down old monuments. These monuments have been falling in the middle of historic protests against police brutality. Sparked by the murder of George ...Show More
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Excellent episode! I have always loved the original version of this episode, which was posted in 2018, so I am so glad they did an update in light of recent events. We absolutely need to reckon with t...Show More
Professor and Art Historian Kirk Savage is one of the nation’s foremost experts on monuments and memorials. Savage is the author of several books including Monument Wars and Standing Soldiers, Kneelin...Show More
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This episode is from 2018, but super relevant right now in the context of 2020 BLM protests and social justice action. The history of the Freedmen’s Memorial in DC is particularly interesting, especia...Show More
The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, but the Confederacy didn't completely die with it. Monuments, shrines and museums are found throughout the South. We teamed up with Type Investigations to ...Show More
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A very powerful episode about how public money goes towards the maintenance of confederate sites and monuments that propagate Lost Cause myths and white supremacy.
About an hour northwest of Madrid, an enormous stone crucifix rises 500 feet out of a rocky mountaintop. It’s so big you can see it from miles away. Beneath the cross, there’s a sprawling Benedictine ...Show More
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Monuments play an important role in shaping historical memory. But what happens when there’s an actual law ordering people to forget historical events? What role does the monument play then?
The past few months have seen vigorous debates about the future of statues to contested historical figures, typically related to the colonial era and the Confederacy. In this episode, historian Simon ...Show More
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For the past few years in the US, statues have been being re-evaluated. I’m also interested in how this conversation is playing out in other countries. This episode examines the case of a statue of Ri...Show More
The story of the toppling of Edward Colston's statue in Bristol became a prominent chapter in the global response to the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests. Those events were t...Show More
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Memorials and public art often spark spirited debates; this is a great example, which explores how the general public often views figurative sculpture (meaning, statues of people) as the norm for monu...Show More