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America’s Ugliest Confederate Statue Is Gone. Racism Isn’t.

What Jefferson’s Statue Meant to the Jewish Naval Hero Who Donated It

Performative Antiracism at the University of Wisconsin

We Took Down the Monuments to the Lost Cause. Now We Build.

The Sovereigns of Thailand and the Skies

How History Turns Riots Into Tea Parties

We Need a Monument to the Unknown America

The Hagia Sophia Was a Cathedral, a Mosque and a Museum. It’s Converting Again.

Would the Prophet Muhammad Convert Hagia Sophia?

Monuments Are Falling. What Should Rise in Their Place?

Reimagining America’s Memorial Landscape

Cancel the Jefferson Memorial?

The Confederate Monuments We Shouldn’t Tear Down

Yes, Even George Washington

Why Did U.N.C. Give Millions to a Neo-Confederate Group?

What Changed in Charlottesville

Undistorting the Civil War

Where the Girls Aren’t

Trump’s Wall of Shame

Monuments for a New Era