Monuments and Collective Memory
I’ve long appreciated the First World War memorials to which the Czechs have added the names of Second World War dead, victims of fascism and communism, and in one case, the dead from UN service. Makes good use of existing monuments. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument in front of the old Kane County Courthouse in …
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When I went to Charleston for the first time late last year, I had no real visual idea of the city. I did expect to find Civil War memorials of some kind, even if they were only the ghosts of standing confederate soldiers or a Confederate general atop his stallion that had recently been removed. …
The Tennessee state house is an imposing Greek Revival building, sitting as it does atop a hill in Nashville. Like other state capitols and courthouses across the country, its lawn is dotted with monuments. They include statues of two of Tennessee’s three presidents: a bronze equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson (it is one of three …
Of Monuments and Memory