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