Scott Sandage

 

Scott A. Sandage is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and author of Born Losers: A History of Failure in America.

Now behind fences erected by the police, the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Park has been criticized ever since its dedication.

What Frederick Douglass Had to Say About Monuments

In a newly discovered letter, the famed abolitionist wrote that ‘no one monument could be made to tell the whole truth'

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