TY - JOUR
T1 - Apples to oranges? The American monumental landscape
AU - Tebeau, Mark
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Grassroots activism has pushed cities across the United States to reconsider Confederate Monuments. Historians have played an important public role in those discussions. To date approximately 100 such monuments, of the more than 1500 that dot the American landscape, have been removed. The Confederate monuments debate has lent support to the work of activists challenging a wide range of objectionable monuments. For example, memorials that commemorate individuals involved in settler colonialism and the genocide of Native Americans, including monuments to U.S. Presidents, are being reassessed. A broad-based reconsideration of the monumental landscape will require hard political choices as Americans reckon with their difficult national past.
AB - Grassroots activism has pushed cities across the United States to reconsider Confederate Monuments. Historians have played an important public role in those discussions. To date approximately 100 such monuments, of the more than 1500 that dot the American landscape, have been removed. The Confederate monuments debate has lent support to the work of activists challenging a wide range of objectionable monuments. For example, memorials that commemorate individuals involved in settler colonialism and the genocide of Native Americans, including monuments to U.S. Presidents, are being reassessed. A broad-based reconsideration of the monumental landscape will require hard political choices as Americans reckon with their difficult national past.
KW - Commemoration
KW - Community activism
KW - Historic preservation
KW - Historical memory
KW - Monuments
KW - Urban history
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U2 - 10.1515/iph-2018-0012
DO - 10.1515/iph-2018-0012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85095590195
VL - 1
JO - International Public History
JF - International Public History
SN - 2567-1111
IS - 2
M1 - 20180012
ER -