The story of Civil War monuments over the past few years has been one of removals. Since 2017, well over 200 Confederate monuments have been removed—roughly 114 since the police murder of George Floyd in May 2020. I thought about this yesterday during the rededication of the Robert Gould Shaw-54th Massachusetts Memorial in front of the Massachusetts Sta…
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