AHA Executive Director Quoted on Removal of Monuments and Statues (July 2020)
AHA executive director Jim Grossman was quoted in several recent media articles on the debate over removing Confederate monuments and statues of Christopher Columbus. The articles include:
- Dora Mekouar, “Anthropologist: Confederate Statues Can Teach Meaningful Lesson,” Voice of America, July 14, 2020
- Paul Gessler, “Historians Say Communities Should Re-Evaluate Who Gets Honored With Statues In Wake Of Baltimore's Columbus Statue's Toppling,”. CBS Baltimore, July 6, 2020
- Julia Young, “Open Forum: What matters is what we are commemorating,” The Winchester Star, July 2, 2020
- Mollie Hemingway, “Trump Was Right In 2017 When He Said Statue Destroyers Wouldn't Stop With Confederate Figures,” The Federalist, June 23, 2020
- “Removal of Civil War plaque is right thing to do,” The Frederick News-Post, June 20, 2020
- Spencer Black, “Flying the Confederate flag only serves to honor racism,” The Cap Times, June 15, 2020
- Levi Rickert, “An Opportunity for a New Interpretation of Christopher Columbus,” Native News Online, June 15, 2020
- Deborah Block, “Demand Escalates for Removal of Confederate Statues, Monuments,” Voice of America, June 15, 2020
- Aris Folley, “Nationwide protests spark renewed local efforts to get rid of Confederate symbols,” The Hill, June 14, 2020
- Philip Williams, Rebecca Armitage and Lucia Stein, “As America grapples with its history of racism, relics of the past are being toppled by a new generation,” ABC News, June 11, 2020
- Nellie Peyton, “What's in a name? U.S. towns see racism in streets, schools and more,” Thomson Reuters Foundation, June 10, 202
- Erica Davies, “Take Them Down: Why are Confederate statues being removed and where is this happening?,” The Sun, June 9, 2020
- Travis Waldron,“The Fall Of America's Monuments To Racism,” HuffPost, June 9, 2020
- Stephanie Wolf, “Are Confederate Monuments History? What's Next Now That Castleman Statue Is Down,” WFPL, June 9, 2020