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Articles on Confederate statues
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Over the course of human history, symbols and monuments have invoked violent impulses and destruction.
Those calling it slavery fan fiction are ignoring the long, nuanced tradition of articles and films that wonder what would have happened if the South had won.
In defending white nationalists in Charlottesville, Donald Trump took aim at the founding fathers.
Displaying Confederate statues in a carefully curated museum would help end a toxic debate about the difference between remembering and venerating.
Should they stay or should they go?
Trump is a master of using anger to motivate his base. An anti-terrorism researcher explains how to stem the tide.
The violence sparked by the removal of Confederate statues in the US shows the ideas that collect around historical monuments. Sometimes it’s better to remove them; yet they can be an important way of remembering trauma.
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Professor of Higher Education and Director, Museum of Education, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Law, University of Richmond
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography, Macalester College
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Professor of History, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of History, University of North Dakota
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Associate Research Fellow, Heritage Destruction Specialist, The University of Melbourne
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Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of History and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Judaic Studies, Fairfield University
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Assistant Professor of US History, Durham University
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Professor of American Politics, George Mason University
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Derek H. Alderman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chancellor's Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Director, Democracy and Fair Elections Lab, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, North Carolina State University
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Associate Provost of Academic Affairs | Professor of Rhetoric & Communication Studies, University of Richmond