Tear It Down: 4 Opportunities For Teaching With Monuments and Statues in a Time of Social Change.
People who follow my work or this blog know that on several occasions I have discussed the way we can use places as teaching tools, specifically parks, monuments, memorials, and of course statues. Although I’m not the only one, I was talking about the problems regarding outdated statues and underfunded historical monuments before it was cool to tear them down. In the aftermath of the George Floyd murder we find ourselves as a society grappling with issues of social justice an