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 • 31 episodes
The Monumental Project
Latest Episodes
Protecting Freedmen's Town, Part 1: History & Advocacy
In this episode, we're meeting with the folks of Freedmen's Town in Houston, Texas. Freedmen's Town is a historic neighborhood developed entirely by the formerly enslaved people of the greater Houston area after their emancipation. However, pre...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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46:00
Reconciling with Fort Pillow: Interpreting New Sites with Kevin Levin
How does a historic site become a national park? In this episode, we meet with Kevin Levin, an educator and public historian who tells about the process of turning Fort Pillow into a national historic site. We discuss the history of Fort Pillow...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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40:14
Remembering La Matanza: A Conversation with Trinidad Gonzales and Benjamin Johnson
This episode comes in a time of dire need for historical reflection and current action. Over the past few weeks, the Monuments Toolkit team, alongside the rest of the nation, has watched as anti-immigrant sentiments, deportations, and racial vi...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:00:00
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