Wednesday, July 22, 12noon-1:30pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

What is the history of attacks on monuments, statues and icons in America? What role did settler colonialism play in erasures of Indigenous and African American histories? Why did the Revolutionary generation get so interested in monuments and statuary? Who gets a monument and who decides what and where? What might alternative monumentalism look like?

The keynote speaker for this event will be Professor Margaret Ellen Newell, OSU Department of History, whose research and teaching interests include colonial and Revolutionary America, Native American History, economic history, material culture, and comparative colonial American/Latin American History.

Her most recent book, Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery, won the 2016 James A. Rawley prize for the best book on the history of race relations in the U.S., awarded by the Organization of American Historians, and also received the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Prize for 2016 from the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Join us for this event via Zoom Meeting and on Facebook Live.

To register by Zoom, click on this link.

Hosted by Interfaith Association of Central Ohio.