Robert E. Lee Statue, UVA Campus Social Sciences Essay

Race and Architecture
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Brundage elaborates the existence of a major debate in the United States relating race, history, and regionalism to artistic monuments. He explains that the clashes witnessed in Charlottesville were protests against the removal of Confederate monuments and the renaming of public schools. The debate additionally involved the President of the United States. It included a question on the Confederate monuments that should be commemorated or honored in the important public spaces and the perception given to the world through the monuments. A Confederate monument or memorial is defined by the time when it was erected. Between the late 1800s and early 1900s, monuments sprouted all over the southern region of the US, with all communities represented. They included tall pillars with a Confederate...