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Brought to you by Penguin. The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public art, and even universities — and one that has a deeper history than...

Co-hosted by Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Michael Paul Williams and Kelli Lemon, After the Monuments captures the zeitgeist of a nation struggling to move from symbolic to substantive change on racial issues. The podcast will analyze current events about race through a historical context, examining the ideas of leading black thinkers over time, and encouraging broader and deeper insights into racial tensions, divisions and reconciliation. Williams and Lemon, both with the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, engage with a wide range of guests to bring context, relevance and resonance to ...

"Obama the Monument Maker" is from the August 28, 2016 Opinion section of The New York Times. It was written by Douglas Brinkley and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Welcome to The Monumental Project: How Historic Sites and Monuments of Yesterday Affect Us Today. As the official companion podcast of the Monuments Toolkit program, we will be diving deep into the pieces of American history found across the nation, and how the stories they carry impact the modern day American citizen. The goal of this podcast and the program at large, is to address the question “how do we address monuments of oppression?” What are our options for dealing with painful pieces of our past? How can we learn, heal, and move forward? By the end of this season we’ll have a ...

President Barack Obama designated two new national monumentsWednesday, protecting 1.35 million acres of federal land surrounding theBears Ears Buttes in southeastern Utah and about 300,000 acres aroundGold Butte in Nevada, northeast of Las Vegas.

"Obama Designates Monuments in Utah and Nevada" is from the December 28, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Coral Davenport and narrated by Kristi Burns.

One woman's enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments.

“We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history a­fter finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy Connor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015...

‘An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel’ Observer, Books of the Year ‘A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary sophistication and ingenuity… [written with] exceptional delicacy and restraint’ TLS...