S2 E3 Monuments and Public History

Durba Ghosh introduces the AHR forum “Mismonumentalizing and Decolonizing: Public History as History for the Public.” We also hear from one of the forum’s contributors—Thomas Adams and Sue Mobley—on their work on recent efforts to rename streets in New Orleans.

Transcript

S2 E3 Monuments and Public History (Transcript)

In this Episode

• Durba Ghosh (Professor of History at Cornell University)
• Sue Mobley (New Orleans based organizer/activist/urbanist; Director of Research at Monument Lab)
• Thomas J. Adams (Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and History at the University of South Alabama)
• Matt Hermane (Producer, PhD Candidate in History at Indiana University, Bloomington)
• Daniel Story (Host and Producer, Digital Scholarship Librarian at UC Santa Cruz

Links

• Durba Ghosh, “Mismonumentalizing and Decolonizing: Public History as History for the Public”
• Jayanta Sengupta, “Masking Statues, Unmasking Policies: “Decolonizing” the Victoria Memorial Hall”
• Mathura Umachandran, “Mismonumentality: Remembering Empire with Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus”
• Arielle Xena Alterwaite, “Slavery and Social Debt”
• Tawny Paul, “Commemorative Street Naming: Fungibility, Ownership, and the Renaming of MLK Boulevard in Los Angeles”\
• Thomas J. Adams and Sue Mobley, “Engraving Egalité in New Orleans: Street Renaming and the Municipal Politics of History”

Music

By Blue Dot Sessions

• The Caspian Sea
• Akonan
• Stock Still
• Lick Stick
• Setting Pace
• Helion Haze
• WestDesert
• Dear Myrtle
• City Limits

Archival and Other Sources

• Tate promo for Kara Walker's Fons Americanus
• Sky News clip of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral procession
• Sky News clip on statues in the UK

Production

• Produced by Daniel Story and Matt Hermane
• Audio engineering and transcription support by Phoebe Rettberg