#1537 Thinking about Statues and Monuments

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week, Clay Jenkinson and Dr. Lindsay Chervinsky discuss the movement to remove statues and monuments across the United States. Each of them offers a list of questions that should be asked whenever a monument is under fire, and things we should all keep in mind as we proceed. They highlight the George Mason monument at George Mason University, the Roosevelt statue group at the American Museum of Natural History, the Jefferson exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Stone Mountain in Georgia.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to this podcast introduction to today's Thomas Jefferson
0:04.9	Hour.
0:05.9	This one is with Dr. Lindsey Chervinsky about monuments.
0:09.5	What should we do with them?
0:11.0	Should we pluck them down?
0:13.0	Should we retire them?
0:14.0	Should we contextualize them?
0:16.0	What do they signify?
0:17.5	Is it fair for us in our time to use our judgments of history to revise our discredit things
0:24.2	from a hundred years ago or more?
0:26.4	Which monuments obviously must go?
0:28.2	Who should be at the table to make these decisions, etc.?
0:30.7	It's a fascinating conversation.
0:32.1	In fact, I think this is one of the most important Jefferson hours that we have done.
0:36.7	So I hope that you'll listen to it and recommend it to your friends.
0:39.3	You might not agree with everything.
0:40.4	I don't agree with everything that we said.
0:41.9	I don't even agree with everything that I said in the program.
0:45.8	But Lindsey has thought about this.
0:47.4	I get asked about this, of course, all the time, all the way up to Mount Rushmore and
0:51.2	the Jefferson Memorial.
0:52.8	But we use some examples of what we both regard as extremely thoughtful, creative, responsible
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