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Erin L. Thompson

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The Reckless Creation of Whiteness

How an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension.

by Erin L. Thompson via The Nation
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on January 29, 2025
A New York Museum's House of Bones

The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose.

by Erin L. Thompson via Hyperallergic on October 15, 2023
At Fort Pillow, Confederates Massacred Black Soldiers After They Surrendered

Targeted even when unarmed, around 70 percent of the Black Union troops who fought in the 1864 battle died as a result of the clash.

by Erin L. Thompson via Smithsonian Magazine on April 10, 2023
The Question of the Offensive Monument

A new book asks what we lose by simply removing monuments.

by Erin L. Thompson via The Nation
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on December 5, 2022
Meet the Indigenous Activist Who Toppled Minnesota's Christopher Columbus Statue

The unauthorized removal of the monument took place during the racial justice protests of summer 2020.

by Erin L. Thompson via Smithsonian Magazine on February 3, 2022
The South’s Monuments Will Rise Again

The Confederate monuments did fall. But not permanently.

by Erin L. Thompson via Washington Post
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on March 5, 2021
Why Just 'Adding Context' to Controversial Monuments May Not Change Minds

Research shows that visitors often ignore information that conflicts with what they already believe about history.

by Erin L. Thompson via Smithsonian Magazine on December 18, 2020

Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of Americas Public Monuments

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Visitors at the National Museum of Natural History in D.C. take in the exhibits.

Human Bones, Stolen Art: Smithsonian Tackles its ‘Problem’ Collections

The Smithsonian’s first update to its collection policy in 20 years proposes ethical returns and shared ownership. But will it bring transformational change?

by Peggy McGlone via Washington Post on July 27, 2022

Race, Labor, and Statues

Race, Labor, and Statues

What is “the process” for taking down Confederate statues? There isn’t one.

by Jack Christian via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 12, 2022

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