Snow cloaks the Salisbury Plain in England, dominated by its most celebrated monument. Built 4,500 years ago, the stone structures of Stonehenge form part of a complex late Neolithic landscape.

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Now, not only is the history of the Confederacy being judged, but other icons of American history are being reconsidered. Monuments celebrating former presidents George Washington, Ulysses S ...

The campaign should promptly do the same on our roiling national confrontations over monuments, memorialization, and the learning and uses of history. According to Smithsonian Magazine, between ...

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Because largely, Confederate monuments were built during two key periods of American history: the beginnings of Jim Crow in the 1920s and the civil rights movement in the early 1950s and 1960s.

As the United States reexamines monuments with ties to racism and injustice, Boston College students have been using the methods of art history to determine possible paths forward. In Professor Oliver ...

ACCORDING TO DATA compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center, some 100 monuments to Confederate generals and politicians have been removed from American public land since June 2015, when Dylann ...

Removing Confederate monuments will not erase history. ... not just in newspapers, magazines, books, blogs and Twitter feeds, but in the archaeological record. ...

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