The suburban-built environment whitewashes the violence and theft on which Canada is built.
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Knott’s Berry Farm and others romanticize the state’s past and influence visitors’ sense of history. But their ideology reflects mid-20th-century political conservatism more than settlers’ reality.
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.
Social media is changing the way we travel, with people increasingly eager to visit Instagram-worthy destinations. Has a place’s visual appeal become more important than its history and authenticity?
What message does it send when we remove symbols of an unsavory – but important – part of American history?
Football clubs around the world have recently been making some highly visible but immobile new signings. Over 350 statues of footballers, managers, chairmen and even fans now stand outside stadiums and…
While visiting and enjoying the architecture of the Forbidden City in China, three researchers wondered how large rocks weighing many hundreds of tons were transported to the site more than 500 years ago…
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Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in Law, University of Alabama
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Associate Research Fellow, Heritage Destruction Specialist, The University of Melbourne
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Ph.D. Candidate in History, UMass Amherst
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Senior Lecturer (Statistician), University of Sheffield
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PhD Canidate, International Football Institute, University of Lancashire
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Senior Scientist, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Assistant Professor of Communication, Elon University
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Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
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Associate Professor, Media, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
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