Historical Memory
When right-wingers whine about "forgetting our history" when people take down statue of evil Confederates and racists, they are telling on themselves. There's plenty to remember about our history that.
As Biden transitions out of the presidency, expect a good part of his later legacy to be signing executive orders creating national monuments, which is something that Clinton and Obama.
Republicans just openly embracing the Confederacy as the only history that really matters to them is....completely unsurprising. The House voted Thursday on a Republican amendment to restore Arlington National Cemetery’s Confederate.
As I say frequently, it is extremely unfortunate that our vision of the civil rights movement has been reduced to just a few people in public memory. This doesn't surprise.
Interesting project here on Chicago activists creating a historical memory project for the Black Panthers work in that city, which most notably included Fred Hampton, assassinated by J. Edgar Hoover's.
State flags are mostly pretty badly designed, but they do express values of the state, or at least they do when they are changed. See how various southern states added.
Hoo boy, this is a complex one. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A proposal to build one of the country's largest wind farms in Idaho is drawing opposition from Japanese Americans. About.
Republicans are at a war with historical memory. And look, they are right about what is going on. Historians are pushing narratives that fit the modern United States. Dissent, race,.