As Confederate statues are removed across the US, we will look at the history of monuments in public spaces.
Although social media memes argue that removing statues “erases history,” historians point out that Confederate monuments are actually a willful distortion of history that promote a myth known as “the Lost Cause.” We’ll look at the actual history of Confederate monuments and consider them in the context of public monuments in general.
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