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The Resistance Files: How Will We Remember What Happened in Charlottesville?

August 27, 2017 Megan Kate Nelson Leave a comment

By Gerard Fitzgerald   Most nights I walk or jog 4-6 miles and my route takes me through the “Academical…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: Charlottesville, Civil War memory, Confederate memorials, memory of trauma, trauma, White Supremacist memorials

Historians Take on White Supremacist Memorials: A Round-Up

August 20, 2017 Megan Kate Nelson 12 Comments

Since the tragic events in Charlottesville, many scholars of Civil War memory have been on the front lines of a…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: American history, Charlottesville, Civil War memory, Confederate memory, Memorials to White Supremacy, public landscapes, racism, White Supremacy

Transforming White Supremacist Memorials: Two Proposals

July 31, 2017 Megan Kate Nelson 11 Comments

[Author’s note: an earlier version of this post referred to these objects as “Confederate memorials.” I have changed all references…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: African-American art, memorial debate, memorial removal, Memorials to White Supremacy, ruins, White Supremacist memorials, White Supremacy

On your Marks … Get Set … Write! Lessons from the Great British Bake Off

July 24, 2017 Megan Kate Nelson 3 Comments

I began watching “The Great British Bake Off” during a research trip in New Mexico. I had been hearing about…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: baking, Great British Bake Off, writing advice

The Resistance Files: Francisco Rodriguez and Anthony Burns: Boston’s History of Deportation

July 20, 2017 Megan Kate Nelson 2 Comments

By Chace Howland Boston, Massachusetts. 2017 As the cries and staccato chants from protestors echo in the streets of Boston,…

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Posted in: Megan Kate Nelson Filed under: abolition, Anthony Burns, Boston, deportation, Francisco Rodriguez, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, ICE, immigration policy

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