Monuments and Memorials
Guest Speaker: Cynthia Prescott
Read
- Cynthia Prescott, Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).
- Charlotte Lydia Riley, “Don’t worry about ‘rewriting history’: it’s literally what we historians do,” The Guardian, 2020.
- Seth C. Bruggeman, “Memorials and Monuments,” Inclusive Historians Handbook, 2020.
- Joanne B. Freeman, “I’m a Historian. I See Reason to Fear—and to Hope,” The Atlantic, 2020.
Think
History is complicated and messy. Based on these readings, how would you describe the historical process? Is history absolute and permanent or something more fluid that reflects back on the time in which it was written? How should we handle conflicting accounts of the past? How should we commemorate the past?
To Do
- Comp Notes #1 on Pioneer Mother Monuments
- All A-Twitter #2
- Find a professional way to thank Dr. Prescott
