Aug
17th
2017
Contested Memory, NOT HISTORY, On Charlottesville's Lee Statue (Or in other words, applying my hard earned, hard paid for MA in History) · 3:19pm Aug 17th, 2017
Taking a step back from the protests in Charlottesville, I'd like to voice my opinions as a historian (nearly MA in History, finally XD) who has studied what we in academia call "historical memory" and "commemoration". In laymen's terms, my last year was spent studying and researching, why people care about history, why people commemorate people and events, why have people commemorated these events and why do they commemorate people and events in certain ways. My research focused mainly on
