Tag: memorials
Reaction to bronze sculpture of Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr....
Kristin Ann Hass, University of Michigan
As an acclaimed photographer and conceptual artist, Hank Willis Thomas has grown accustomed...
Spain’s new memory law dredges up a painful chapter of Spain’s...
Sara J. Brenneis, Amherst College
Walking down a tree-lined street in the Poble Sec neighborhood of Barcelona, one might...
Veterans Day: How crosses and mementos help these Marines remember fallen...
Katrina Finkelstein, University of Tennessee and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee
On Veterans Day, people across America will...
As collective memory fades, so will our ability to prepare for...
Sean Donahue, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Just below the Japanese village of Aneyoshi, there’s a stone carved...
A Confederate statue graveyard could help bury the Old South
Jordan Brasher, University of Tennessee and Derek H. Alderman, University of Tennessee
An estimated 114 Confederate symbols have been removed from public view since 2015....
Misery and memory in Glendora, Mississippi: How poverty is reshaping the...
Dave Tell, University of Kansas
In August of 1955, Emmett Till was lynched in the Mississippi Delta. The 14-year-old African American reportedly whistled at a...
The Confederate statue debate: 3 essential reads
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories related to the debate over what to do with Confederate statues.
The...