Plan to transform largest Confederate monument lacks transparency

A proposal to spend more than $11 million of taxpayers' money to renovate parts of Stone Mountain resists citizen efforts to depict the ...

Changes are coming to the nation's largest Confederate monument ...

But critics remain as unmoved as the granite the monument is carved into. They say the changes are tinkering on the edges, especially in the ...

Statement by US Historians on Recently Released Confederate ...

Combining headstones and other cemetery renovations with the relocation of the monument turns the monument into part of a new, larger ...

America's 'Confederate infrastructure:' Too big to hide, move or raze

Stone Mountain and Monument Avenue are merely the most conspicuous examples of public control of Confederate sites. Even as some governmental ...

The Future Of Confederate Monuments - National Parks Traveler

As the nation continues to reckon with its racist history, legislation calling for the removal of Confederate commemorative works from ...

I've studied the history of Confederate memorials. Here's what to do ...

Perhaps the defenders of Confederate monuments will demonstrate their good faith by pressing for funding for new monuments to Southerners, white ...

Black and white Southerners' views on Confederate memorials - PRRI

These protests have sparked discussions about the nation's racial history, during which some people have called for the removal of public ...

A Confederate monument is removed in Jacksonville, but debate ...

Yet a large share of the community defended the monument as a relic of history that should be preserved. A poll from the University of North ...

A Constitutional Reset on Confederate Monuments, Civil Rights and ...

The now-defunct Enron's name-rights agreement with Major League Baseball's Houston Astros is one of many examples of multi-million-dollar naming ...

Reckoning with History: Confederate Monuments in American Cities

His grand ambition was to ignite a race war—a plan that he reportedly hesitated to execute, “because everyone was so nice to him.”1 By the time Roof turned his ...

Hey, Texplainer: Is Texas removing Confederate markers from the ...

George W. Bush signed legislation directing the State Preservation Board to plan an African American monument. He signed it in 1997. You've read ...

THE CURIOUS CASE OF CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS

example, Stone Mountain is the home of the largest Confederate monument in ... year mission of the UDC through state law, transforming the Confederate monument at ...

Confederate monument removal highlights tough task of eliminating ...

Supporters of the monument first claimed that the memorial was a symbol of unity. In fact, the memorial was part of an organized propaganda ...

Undercover Monument Removal in New Orleans Sparks ... - Next City

Days after that agreement was signed, masked workers took down the first monument, an obelisk honoring a Reconstruction-era uprising by white ...

Robert E. Lee statue is last Confederate monument removed in New ...

It caps a nearly two-year-long process that has been railed against by those who feel the monuments are a part of Southern heritage and honor ...

The Afterlife of Confederate Monuments

Nora McGreevy, Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee. Statue Will be Melted Down, Transformed into New Art, SMITHSONIAN MAG. (Dec. 10, 2021), https:// ...

Landrieu explains why he chose 4 Confederate monuments ... - WDSU

While one group sets its sights on other monuments and landmarks in the city, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he ...

Since George Floyd's Death, These Confederate Monuments Have ...

Status: After plans to deface it surfaced on social media, Mecklenburg County Commission Chair George Dunlap ordered the county manager to ...

On Her Way Out, UNC Chancellor Orders Removal Of 'Silent Sam ...

Last month, the board overseeing North Carolina's public universities rejected the UNC Trustees' plan for a center to house a Confederate statue ...

Where Confederate monuments, symbols are located in America

“History has shown us that Confederate monuments were erected to intimidate black people, while preserving a revisionist history which ...