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Scholar of white supremacy visits all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed, says Richmond gets it right
Moving the statue from its public perch on Monument Avenue and into a museum transformed it from a commemorative object glorifying its subject to a historical artifact. And presenting the statue ...
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How an Arthur Ashe statue ended up in Richmond's Confederate memorial
The capital of Virginia, and the former capital of the Confederacy, is a target-rich environment when it comes to statues of southern Civil War figures. At the city’s heart is Monument Avenue ...
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I’m a scholar of white supremacy who’s visiting all 113 places where Confederate statues were removed in recent years − here’s why Richmond gets it right
Moving the statue from its public perch on Monument Avenue and into a museum transformed it from a commemorative object glorifying its subject to a historical artifact. And presenting the statue ...
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EDITORIAL: Statues foster a sense of history
Last weekend’s dedication of a statue at Boy Scout Park and the recent return of the Little Crow statue next to the Crow River has made us aware that Hutchinson is all the richer with these ...