As I've noted before, narratives based on these timelines have to consider things like the natural cycle of war remembrance, reflected on the Union side. A pretty clear contrast in these two charts - the war monuments fit the natural pattern. Not so, the naming of schools. https://twitter.com/PhilWMagness/status/1155679833772515329 …
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What's the world's most prominent memorial or monument to a lost war? I'd nominate the ironically-named Arc de Triomphe, which was commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 after Austerlitz, but only completed in 1836, long after the French had lost the Napoleonic Wars.
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It takes a truly French commitment to chutzpah to name your monument the Arch of Triumph after the war ended in a colossal failure.
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Difference is they lost the war.
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Dan what is your argument in favor of Confederate moments
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counterexample, no memorable WWI memorials in the sixties. then again 1968 was the craziest year since 1794
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I must not have lived in the right neighborhood. Didn’t see any Tojo elementary school or Goebbels center for performing arts around me.
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The peak of Lost Cause monument construction was about 50 years after Appomattox.
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Theres also the point that during Reconstruction (lasting through 1881) southern statues were prohibited or severely restricted. It creates a whole subversive industry to suppress speech. It should be an easy lesson, but it never is.
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