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Topic: monuments

Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Charlottesville Robert E Lee coming down

Ashlie D. Stevens
Over 800 corten-steel monuments, one for each county in the United States where a racial terror lynching took place with the names of the lynching victims engraved on the columns are on display at The National Memorial For Peace And Justice, the nations first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people and people terrorized by lynching in Montgomery, Alabama on July 6, 2018. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Building new monuments for a new America

Elizabeth Alexander
(Getty/UWMadison)

Money could change confederate minds

Christian Grose, Jordan Carr Peterson - The Conversation
Hank Willis Thomas’ 800-pound sculpture "All Power to All People" (Monument Lab)

What should replace Confederate statues?

Ashlie D. Stevens
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About 100 protesters gather at the Jefferson Davis Monument August 19, 2018 in Richmond, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Confederate monuments: Where are they?

Kali Holloway - Alternet
Discovery of Nat Turner (Wikimedia)

Do we need a monument to Nat Turner?

Patrick H. Breen
Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC (Getty/ Win McNamee)

The art of the war memorial

Noah Charney
Ten Commandments monument on the Arkansas Capitol grounds in Little Rock on Tuesday, June 27, 2017. (AP/Andrew DeMillo)

Arkansas' Ten Commandments

Matthew Rozsa
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Patrick Cole - Bloomberg
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Prachi Gupta
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