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Deconstructing Confederate Monuments - INT 100/201 APPROVED!

Monday, October 26, 2020
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Online
Alumni, Community, Faculty, Staff, Students

A monument in Allendale, MI that features a Confederate soldier, Union soldier, and enslaved child.

Allendale Township is home to Michigan's only known monument honoring Confederate soldiers in their fight against the United States of America. It is one of over 700 monuments to the Confederacy erected in at least 24 states, and is now part of a movement pushing to remove these tributes to the Confederacy. The Kutsche Office of Local History is hosting a roundtable this fall to examine how memorializing the Confederacy became so widespread even outside the South, how these memorials contribute to historic erasure, their links to histories of racism, and where we can go from here. Scholars Dina Bailey, Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, and Kevin Levin will discuss their own work examining the way America remembers the Civil War and answer questions about the history and the future of these memorials.

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Kutsche Office of Local History

[email protected] - 616-331-8099

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This event was added to the calendar by Mary Williford (willifom@gvsu.edu) on Monday, September 21, 2020 and was last updated on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 2:11 p.m.