
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 • 21 episodes
The Monumental Project
Latest Episodes
Methods of Approach: Trends in Monument Removal, Relocation, and Reinterpretation
Monument removal, relocation, and reinterpretation is a process that has several means to its end. For some, this process involves work from activists in the community appealing to political leaders. In other cases, decisions to rectify an oppr...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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44:28

The Alex Odeh Memorial Statue: A Monument of Reconciliation
While the George Floyd Protests of 2020 brought monuments of oppression into light primarily for Black Americans, social justice issues related to Palestinians came into primary focus more recently with the extreme escalation of conflict in the...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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31:49

Reclaiming Place Through Ceremony and Pilgrimage
On September 29, 1526, 498 years ago, the first recorded shipment of captive Africans arrived with Spanish colonizers on the North American mainland in the Sapelo Bay region of Georgia. This is not well-known African America history specificall...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:23:05

The Monument in the Mountain
If you’ve tuned into the show before, then you know that most of our conversations are centered around public art, history and racial justice. The combination of these three things are the essence of what makes this topic so interesting: how do...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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50:37

Art and Activism in Alabama
When it comes to the conversation around Monuments of oppression, there are a few obstacles that usually come into play. To start, there's the Daughters of the Confederacy, the neo-Confederate association for female descendants of Confe...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:13:02
