The Monumental Project
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 better understanding.
Podcasting since 2022 • 28 episodes
The Monumental Project
Latest Episodes
Commemorating Sites of Conscience with Ereshnee Naidu
The process of commemorating a site with complicated histories can be a challenge. Whether you're looking to memorialize a tragedy or highlight the hidden history of a site popular for other reasons, there are several steps of care necessary to...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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30:46
Community Made Monuments with Ashley Edwards and Jose Vazquez
Monuments are often designed by a single person or small team of people. The (Un)Set in Stone project defies that. Instead, the three initial creators of this monument pass the work onto the community of Montgomery, Alabama to define what monum...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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33:15
Making a Monument: A Conversation with Harmonia Rosales
As often as we discuss monuments that have stood for decades or centuries, we rarely find the opportunity to discuss a monument just recently erected. In our final episode of 2025, we're excited to share a conversation with Harmonia Rosales, th...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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23:54
The Columbus Episode: A Discussion with Shelly Corbin
Statues of Christopher Columbus have been at the forefront of the debate on monuments in both the United States and all over the world. In the city of Columbus, Ohio, they launched the Reimagining Columbus project in order to determine what oug...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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49:38
The Hawaiian Monuments Landscape and the Captain James Cook Monument
The Hawaiian monuments landscape offers important differences to the rest of the monuments landscape known throughout the continental United States. One of their contentious monuments is the Captain James Cook Monument, an obelisk that exists a...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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49:30