If Minnesota wants to take down its statue of Christopher Columbus in front of the state capitol, I say go for it. If it wants to replace that statue with one of Prince, I think the nation may finally be united.
Historical Memory
Above: Joseph Lane From a blogging perspective, this is a really good time for me to be on a research trip with limited internet access and blogging falling down the.
Oh dear: The artist behind the Elgin mural that depicts a portion of a famous photo of a 1930 lynching of two black men in Indiana said the piece was.
Above: Execution following New York City slave uprising, 1741 Too often, we discuss slavery as simply as southern phenomenon. This serves a number of functions, all of which are unfortunate. It allows northerners to demonize southerners specifically for slavery and for racism, when of course...
It's just so hard to be a dead Confederate today. No one loves you anymore. No one wants to name things after treasonous slaveholders or the northern politicians who facilitated.
I really appreciate this point Bernie Sanders made recently: People are not truly free when they are unable to feed their family,” he said. “People are not truly free when.
What a great project to give the Triangle Fire victims a proper memorial. The memorial would include several long steel panels running along the building’s facade. One horizontal panel would be 13 feet high and have 146 names stenciled into the steel; below it would...
December 7, 1941. Asian colonial power attacks U.S. colonial outposts in Hawaii and Philippines. Next 74 years sees no awareness by Americans that racist colonialism of Japan and racist colonialism.
Of course Donald Trump is making up historical stories to sell real estate. Between the 14th hole and the 15th tee of one of the club’s two courses, Mr. Trump.
Above: Theodore Roosevelt, Virulent Racist The recent debates over which Americans to honor with statues, building names, and other monuments, is welcome. History should be debated. The present is not under any obligation to the past to keep something named after John C. Calhoun. Right...
Like the environmental post yesterday, there are a lot of interesting historical posts I've been meaning to talk about. Let's move through them all at once. 1) Extremely expensive dinners.
Unveiling ceremony of Confederate monument, Salisbury, North Carolina, 1909 Sometimes people wonder why the Confederate monuments matter? As if getting rid of them will end racism! No one argued that,.