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Fallen Monuments: An Introduction
This essay introduces the special section on Fallen Monuments. It explores the importance of monuments as one of the ways in which publics engage with the past and explains why they often become sites of debate and ...
Apples to Oranges? The American Monumental Landscape
(M. Tebeau, Apples to Oranges? The American Monumental Landscape, «International Public History», 1, 2018, n. 2, pp. 1-7, 2018)
Grassroots activism has pushed cities across the United States to reconsider Confederate Monuments. Historians have played an important public role in those discussions. To date approximately 100 such monuments, of the ...
The Limits of Iconoclasm: Soviet War Memorials since the End of Socialism
(M. Gabowitsch, The Limits of Iconoclasm: Soviet War Memorials since the End of Socialism, «International Public History», 1, 2018, n. 2, pp. 1-6, 2018)
There is a widespread perception that the countries of the former Soviet bloc removed all or most communist-era public monuments soon after the end of socialism. Based on a number of heavily publicized instances of iconoclasm, ...
The Destruction of the Monument to Humanity: Historical Conflict and Monumentalization
(E. Özbek, The Destruction of the Monument to Humanity: Historical Conflict and Monumentalization, «International Public History», 1, 2018, n. 2, pp. 1-5, 2018)
The destruction of the Monument to Humanity caused a heated debate in Turkey about the relationship between political power and artistic freedom. However, parties in this debate failed, to a great extent, to address the ...
Christopher Columbus and Juana Azurduy: Revising and Revisiting Historical Monuments in Argentina
(M. Lerer, Christopher Columbus and Juana Azurduy: Revising and Revisiting Historical Monuments in Argentina, «International Public History», 1, 2018, n. 1, pp. 1-5, 2018)
This article examines the recent disputed, intertwined re-sitings of Arnaldo Zocchi’s Monument to Christopher
Columbus (1910) and Andrés Zerneri’s Monument to Juana Azurduy (2015) in Buenos Aires. It analyzes issues
of ...
Fallen Monuments: An Introduction
(D. Dean, Fallen Monuments: An Introduction «International Public History», 1, 2018, n. 2, pp. 1-6, 2018)
This essay introduces the special section on Fallen Monuments. It explores the importance of monuments as one of the ways in which publics engage with the past and explains why they often become sites of debate and ...
A Public History of monuments
(2022)
Recent controversies over monuments question not only who should
be represented and commemorated in the public space but also who
can decide whether to remove or not the monuments. In doing so,
those controversies relate ...