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Stay or go? Fate of Andrew Jackson statues at KC, Independence courthouses up to voters
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 11 months agoShould the statues of President Andrew Jackson be removed from the county courthouses in Kansas City...
County legislator makes new push to remove Andrew Jackson statue at KC courthouse
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe resolution is the latest effort to remove the statues of former U.S. President Andrew Jackson,...
Get rid of the Andrew Jackson statues — and there’s a creative fix with his name, too | Opinion
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 11 months agoI was thinking: Why should we continue to honor our county’s namesake, President Andrew Jackson?...
Quit living in the past, Kansas City. Time to lose that Andrew Jackson statue downtown | Opinion
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 7 months agoEach new generation establishes values for itself and challenges symbols of the past that may no...
Presidential greatness is rarely fixed in stone – changing attitudes on racial injustice and...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, sits in the Lincoln Memorial...
Next battle: The Confederate monument bill that supposedly isn't about Confederate monuments
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe statue is gone from Springfield Park, tucked away in storage. End of story? Time to move onto...
Jacksonville’s last major Confederate monument is gone, but some lesser-known ones still remain
WJAX via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe removal of the Tribute to the Women of the Southern Confederacy monument Wednesday marked the...
"Roots of America" speaker, others tell more on history of the Cherokee
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis is about the second in the series of "Roots of America" lecture series, sponsored by the Oak...
Governor backs monument removal preemption
WJAX via Yahoo News· 4 months agoGovernor Ron DeSantis said he supports the push in the Florida Legislature to prohibit local governments from removing historical statues and monuments during a press conference in Jacksonville Thursday.
After removal of Springfield Confederate monument, 'Monuments and Memorials Protection Act' filed
WJAX via Yahoo News· 5 months agoJust one day after Mayor Donna Deegan authorized the removal of Jacksonville’s last prominent Confederate monument, a Senate companion to a bill that would require historical monuments to be put back up was filed in the Florida Legislature.
