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MONUMENT ARTICLES

National Geographic Article: Who do American monuments honor the most? A landmark study finally has answers.
National Geographic looks at a study that details all the monuments in America: who is represented? Who gets left out? What can we as a society do about it?

Mr. Honda's Google Doc of Articles about Monuments

Click on the above link to read all the articles Mr. Honda has collected (with the exception of the SF Chronicle and the Washington Post - see below)

Page with Links to SF Chronicle & Washington Post Articles about Monuments

To read the SF Chronicle and Washington Post article PDFs, click on the link above.

NATIONAL MONUMENT AUDIT:

This report assesses the current monument landscape across the United States.

INFO ON THE VARIOUS PLACES FOR NEW MONUMENTS

CHINESE CAMP - HISTORICAL MINING TOWN IN CA GOLD COUNTRY

OAKLAND LATINO & NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY

Ohlone Indians and Their Neighbors: Yesterday and Today

LAFAYETTE - MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE MONUMENT

ROBERT E. LEE STATUE PEDESTAL

Wash Post: Northam proposes major effort to reimagine public space around Robert E. Lee Statue in Richmond

INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS MONUMENT

CA MONUMENT TO CHINESE MASSACRE OF 1871 IN LOS ANGELES

LA Times: L.A.'s memorial for 1871 Chinese Massacre will mark a shift in how we honor history

PORTSMOUTH SQUARE, SAN FRANCISCO

HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AT THE LEGION OF HONOR, SF

SERIES OF MONUMENTS ON 8 PLANTATION SITES

NPR Interview: Clint Smith Discusses His Book & the 8 Former Slave-Holdiing Sites He Visited In his new book, How the Word Is Passed, Smith visits eight places central to the history of slavery in America, including Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation and Louisiana's Angola prison, which was built on the site of a former plantation. WE HAVE THIS BOOK IN THE LIBRARY.
In-Depth Vox Interview with author Clint Smith
Clint Smith on How America Remembers—and Misremembers—Slavery
Author Clint Smith's Website About His Book & The 8 Plantations
The Zinn Education Project: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith: Why Confederate Lies Live On

CHICAGO'S RED SUMMER OF 1919

1921 TULSA, OK RACE MASSACRE

GOOGLE SITES - STUDENT WEBSITES: MONUMENTS PROJECT

I. 2024 Monuments Project Websites: (Google Site)

This is where your group will link your site when it is finished

II. Use the rubric to guide you in building your site

III. Google Sites Website Examples from Previous Years:

SAMPLE SITE - MONUMENTS PROJECT

Check out these sites made by students using Google Sites. The first one is a sample site made by Ms. Burkhalter.

The next 3 sites are student-created ones from past monuments projects.

OTHER USEFUL LINKS

Other Useful Articles/Links on Monuments

& How to Memorialize the Past

PODCAST: "Gold Chains: A Podcast About the Hidden History of Slavery in California Podcast from the ACLU about the little-known history of slavery in CA (includes an episode about Native Americans, but is primarily about the Black experience in early CA)
Getty Museum: Creating a Digital Museum to Memorialize America’s Slave Past Article looks at different memorials to slavery around the US
A Temporary Memorial was Set Up in LA to Commemorate the 1930s "Repatriation" of Mexicans (2012)
My ancestor owned 41 slaves. What do I owe their descendants?
The Academy for Cultural Diplomacy Has examples of many different types of monuments from througout history. There are also links to music and film as cultural monuments.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened to the public on April 26, 2018, is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved Black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.
The Third Person Project A research organization originally dedicated to uncovering and preserving lost copies of the The Wilmington Daily Record, the African-American newspaper destroyed at the onset of the 1898 Wilmington, NC, Massacre. Currently, the group is also locating and identifying unmarked graves of the victims of the Wilmington Massacre. Is the preservation of the gravesites and the newspapers monuments in themselves?
NY Times: Reimagining Monuments by 5 Artists With colonialist statues being toppled in America and beyond, The NY Times Style Magazine asked five artists to envision a different kind of memorial, one that embodies this moment of reckoning.
Redefining the Role of Public Monuments Some say removing statues is not erasing history; others question Do they reinforce privilege, power, status quo? Have they outlived their usefulness?
Article: Better Reflecting Our Country’s Growing Diversity From the Center for American Progress, an article discussing how the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Forest Service are creating a system of protected lands and historic sites that more accurately documents the diversity of the places, peoples, cultures, and beliefs responsible for shaping our history and better reflects who we are as a nation.
SPLC: Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy Although the Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, 2,089 Confederate memorials can still be found throughout the United States and its territories.
Smithsonian Magazine: Rethinking How We Celebrate American History—Indigenous Peoples’ Day Given research showing that the majority of state and local curriculum standards end their study of Native American history before 1900, the importance of celebrating the survival and contemporary experience of Native peoples has never been clearer.
Chronicle of Higher Education: How Should We Memorialize Slavery? A case study of what happens when research collides with public memory
KQED: S.F. Approves Requirement to Add More Statues of Women in Public Spaces The ordinance sets a new policy that at least 30 percent of historical figures depicted in statues and other artworks on city-owned property be women. That also includes public building names and street names.

WHAT IS A LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT?

WHAT IS A PRIMARY SOURCE?

Primary sources are documents, images or artifacts that provide firsthand testimony or direct evidence concerning an historical topic being researched. Primary sources are original documents created or experienced at the time the historical event was occurring.