Good Grief
I had my doubts about this event, since we were interpreting the death and mourning of John Brown a full month after it actually happened, and initially resiste...
Tag: memorials
Washington Memorialized
Today marks the 214th anniversary of the death of George Washington, memorialized here in a Chinese reverse-on-glass painting. I suspect that the figure of the ...
The Once-Forgotten Memorial
In the 1990s, when I worked in St. Louis, the Soldiers’ Memorial, central to the Downtown Memorial Plaza, felt more forgotten than anything else. Several wars l...
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