Historical Memory
This is super fascinating. Over two years, York trekked some 8,000 miles from St. Louis to the Pacific Northwest and back, hunting, tracking, foraging and, at least once, voting as.
Well, at least something good happened today. A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that has represented Virginia in the U.S. Capitol for 111 years has been removed.Virginia Gov..
I've talked about the sad state of historical Black cemeteries before, including when I visited Maggie Walker's grave and also Arthur Ashe's grave. There are however people working hard to.
I don't think this is the first time I've linked to an article about just how horribly Ken Burns' The Civil War has aged, since he chose to make good.
One thing we are now seeing is that as liberal institutions work to respect the anti-racist historical interpretations now gaining steam, they are purging association with their founders, who mostly.
It doesn't really need to be repeated here I suppose. But it is always worth remembering that all the myths about the Confederacy being this anti-capitalist state is trash and.
As we deal with our racist past and the white supremacist statues across the country, things start getting difficult when we move beyond those who have obvious consensus as horrible.
ONATE-JANE BERNARD/JOURNal Estevan Arellano, director of the Onate Center in Alcalde, shows how much of the foot and ankle was removed from a sculpture of Spanish settler Juan De Onate.