Today on Town Square, we’ll look at the function of tangible memories of America’s slave past and in our state, reminders of the annexation of a kingdom. Are we trying to revise history to make it less painful and more palatable or are we losing the physical remembrance of events not to be repeated?
Town Square: Revising Versus Commemoratting History
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