How do statues and monuments create public history

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Assignment:

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the Katyn monument and how did it become a focal point of Public History in Jersey City? What does the Time Magazine article argue about the power of statues and this statue in particular?

2. What do you think the best solution is for the Confederate Civil War statues? What is the best solution for statues dedicated to people with a slaveholding history? As you've read, the city of London pulled down the statue of William Beckford who had ties to the slave trade. Should the United States take down statues of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson? Why or why not? Please be respectful of all opinions in this discussion.

3. How do statues and monuments create public history? What role do they play in society? What do the historians in the podcast you listened to say about effective monuments?

4. Who is someone that does not have a statue/monument that you think deserves one? Why? How would it better educate the public on a specific history?

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