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Monumental

Monumental

The landscape of public memory is shifting. As we re-examine the plaques in our parks and sculptures on our streets, we grapple with what to do with them. Once we learn the stories these objects tell about who we are, will tearing down statues and renaming schools be enough?Monumental interrogates the state of monuments across the country and what their future says about our own. In this 10-episode series, host and author Ashley C Ford and a team of audio journalists from around the country will piece together the complex stories behind some of the thousands of monuments that exist in every corner of the U.S. Listen to Monumental weekly on Mondays beginning October 30, 2023.For more information about Monumental, visit our website at www.prx.org/monumental

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The landscape of public memory is shifting. As we re-examine the plaques in our parks and sculptures on our streets, we grapple with what to do with them. Once we learn the stories these objects tell about who we are, will tearing down statues and renaming schools be enough?Monumental interrogates the state of monuments across the country and what their future says about our own. In this 10-episode series, host and author Ashley C Ford and a team of audio journalists from around the country will piece together the complex stories behind some of the thousands of monuments that exist in every corner of the U.S. Listen to Monumental weekly on Mondays beginning October 30, 2023.For more information about Monumental, visit our website at www.prx.org/monumental

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9hr 7min
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Monumental interrogates the state of monuments across the country and what their future says about our own.
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Monuments of the Future
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A podcast from Wyoming Public Media
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Stone Mountain and Xernona Clayton
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Pearl Harbor National Monument and Honouliuli National Historic Site
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Federal Hall and the African Burial Ground in NYC
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Esther Hobart Morris statue
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Wilmington 1898 Monument and Memorial Park
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Immigrant Workers Get Their Due
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Santa Fe Soldier's Monument, Bosque Redondo Memorial at Ft. Sumner Historic Site
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Birth of the New World and the Mabuhay mural
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George Floyd Square and The Emancipation Group

Bringing Monuments Home

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February 26, 20241hr

Some monuments are larger than life. And they reinforce this idea that monuments are supposed to inspire awe and maybe even dwarf us. But what if a monument was human-scaled and made us aware of our bodies in space? We don’t often think about the design choices that go into making a monument, but more and more, a new generation of artists and designers are reimagining what a monument can look and feel like, and the kinds of stories they can hold. In this episode, we travel to Montgomery, Alabama to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, to uncover how they took inspiration from Holocaust memorials in Germany to memorialize the horrific legacy of lynching in this country. And we look at decentralized memorials that are using technology to help bring monuments to the past into the future.

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Bringing Monuments Home
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