STATUES AND STATUE REMOVAL : NATIONAL VAHALLA: ALL ABOUT STATUES

About this episode

Bruce examines the history and debate surrounding statues and monuments in America, focusing on Confederate statues and their removal.

From the early attempts to depict Washington, to the first Congressional attempts to block Confederate statues, to today's debate. In this episode Bruce examines the history behind statues in America, and Bruce looks at every debating point and angle he can think of regarding Confederate statues, the dates of their construction and their removal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Bruce Carlson

Topics covered

• statues
• monuments
• Confederate statues
• statue removal
• American history
• political debate

Keywords

• statues
• monuments
• Confederate
• history
• removal
• politics
• debate

Mentioned in this episode

Places: America

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