Welcome back, dear listeners! If you’re an American who has been awake for the last one hundred years or so, you might have heard about all this ruckus about Confederate monuments.
Ginger takes us to our hometown of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy and home to Monument Ave, a street filled with Confederate statues and traffic circles that people still can’t f***ing use properly. We answer all the burning questions like: Is memorializing traitors and racists a bad thing? Do we really learn history by driving past statues of slave owners? Are horses sexy? We’re diving into this controversy headfirst, so hang onto your butts!
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Citations
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Avenue
- https://acwm.org/blog/monument-avenue-controversial-start/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee_Monument_(Richmond,_Virginia)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Mercié
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._E._B._Stuart_Monument
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_James_Outram,_1st_Baronet
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Moynihan
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis_Memorial_(Richmond,_Virginia)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Virginius_Valentine
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson_Monument
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Sievers
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fontaine_Maury
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
- https://wams.nyhistory.org/modernizing-america/xenophobia-and-racism/monuments-to-the-lost-cause/
- https://www.richmond.com/news/local/mayor-stoney-effective-immediately-the-monument-avenue-commission-will-include/article_0120e8e9-d3f8-5b9e-8343-69902df255a6.html
- https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2020/04/new-law-allows-virginia-localities-to-remove-confederate-statues-and-monuments
- https://apnews.com/b27b2bfce3ecefe13c917a69a59cd9da
- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/stonewall-jackson-statue-down-after-richmond-mayor-orders-removal-all-n1232732
- https://wtvr.com/2018/09/30/museum-of-the-confederacy-closed-new-location/
- https://www.npr.org/2018/07/08/627024882/richmonds-confederate-monuments
- https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/876293231/confederate-monuments-the-history-of-controversial-symbols
- https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/by-the-numbers-virginia-has-the-most-confederate-monuments-flags-and-other-symbols-in-the/article_504277a5-abeb-5451-b1e9-6df44b0241e0.html
- https://www.nbc12.com/2020/06/04/history-behind-robert-e-lee-monument-richmond/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/02/us/stonewall-jackson-statue-richmond.html
- http://www.virginiaplaces.org/military/confederatemonuments.html
- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/its-not-just-the-monuments/612940/
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/costs-confederacy-special-report-180970731/
- https://www.history.com/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confederate-monuments
- https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544266880/confederate-statues-were-built-to-further-a-white-supremacist-future
- https://www.splcenter.org/20190201/whose-heritage-public-symbols-confederacy
- https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/history/the-history-of-confederate-monuments-in-america/291-75e9aa26-f14b-46c4-8e5f-913cf5f00b76
- https://savingplaces.org/press-center/media-resources/national-trust-statement-on-confederate-memorials#.XwH8nS2ZM6U
- https://time.com/5849184/confederate-statues-removed/
- https://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/monument-avenue-commission-remove-jefferson-davis-monument-reinterpret-others-honoring/article_22138cfa-7734-5844-8175-93cec52f7d59.html
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