In a symbolic rebuke of the American South's racist history, an old Confederate ... in Richmond used ropes to pull down the bronze statue of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, splashed paint ...
In a symbolic rebuke of the American South’s racist history, an old Confederate ... in Richmond used ropes to pull down the bronze statue of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, splashed paint ...
No one is “tearing down” statues ... America over the right to own African-American men and women as slaves. By being placed in museums and other appropriate places, these Confederate statues ...
A University of North Dakota history professor who studies the American West believes monuments depicting the pioneers ...
Defenders of Confederate monuments have argued that the statues should be left standing to educate ... Telling the truth about American history requires transforming these memorials into true ...
Historian Julian Hayter said the tearing down of statues is a way of correctly rewriting American history. Many of the Confederate memorials in the spotlight today were built long after the Civil ...
The Stalinesque quest to expunge Confederate-era statues from American history may offer people a warm, runny sensation. And it has given the Left a nifty new weapon to flog its enemies.
Moreover, some Confederate statues were erected specifically ... A statue of Teddy Roosevelt at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City drew an angry crowd demanding its removal ...
But opponents argue the monuments serve as an offensive reminder of America's history of slavery and racial oppression. "The historical and cultural significance of the Confederate statues on our ...
the first African American justice. But a House effort to remove statues honoring Confederates stalled in the Senate. One of those Confederate statues stands in front of the office of the House ...
Statues of George Washington and Frederick Douglass will join those of more contemporary heroes like celebrity chef Julia ...