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The history of Confederate statues in the US
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-on-confederate-statues-2017-8


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Undated: "The River of Blood" is a monument located on a golf course on Lowes Island, Virginia owned by US President Donald Trump. A plaque signed with Trump's name states that the monument marks the place of numerous deaths in the American Civil War, although no listed battle nor publicly disclosed event with any recorded casualties took place at the site.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_of_Blood_%28monument%29


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January 13: Rice University mural, monument vandalized with pro-Donald Trump graffiti

Rice University's police department is investigating two cases of vandalism that were discovered Friday at the campus.

"#DeportSpanos" and "TRUMP BABY!," among other words, were spray-painted on a mural that is fastened to the side of the Moody Center shipping containers. By Friday afternoon, the vandalized art piece was being removed. 
https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Rice-University-mural-monument-vandalized-with-10855941.php

April 7: A Monument to Trump Hatred ... Massive Eisenhower Memorial Could Break Ground as Early as September.” This alarming headline appeared the other day in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. The news is alarming because after years, and many, many millions of dollars, spent tinkering with "starchitect" Frank Gehry's ludicrous plans for an Ike monument on the National Mall, the design remains what The Weekly Standard's Andrew Ferguson has called it: "a deconstructionist fantasy," a "sly insult to Dwight Eisenhower," and "a pitiless joke."

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It seems all that's needed now is for Congress to come up with something north of $80 million ... and President Trump will have to sign off on the expenditure. Eisenhower Commission spokeswoman Chris Cimko declared the group "confident" that Donald Trump would be eager to back their plans. "President Trump is a builder, and he is a Republican," Cimko told Roll Call. "I can't imagine that he doesn't revere Ike."

Back in 2010, the Donald had bragging rights that his Trump World Tower was the Big Apple's tallest residential building. That was until Gehry built an undulating 76-story steel shaft of a skyscraper on Spruce Street. Peeved, Trump wondered publicly if the building would be a financial success; Gehry responded, "I don't like his hairdo."
https://www.weeklystandard.com/the-scrapbook/a-monument-to-trump-hatred

April 24: Bill to protect Confederate memorials could be helped by New Orleans removal of monuments
http://www.wbrc.com/story/35232315/bill-to-protect-confederate-memorials-could-be-helped-by-new-orleans-removal-of-monuments/

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April 25: Trump aims attack at national monuments: 27 at risk
https://www.wilderness.org/articles/article/trump-aims-attack-national-monuments-27-risk

April 26: 24 national monuments threatened by Trump's executive order
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/26/24-national-monuments-threatened-trumps-executive-order/100925418/

April 26:
What You Need to Know About Trump’s National Monument Rethink

Trump questions presidential authority to “lock up land”—but can he really rescind federal monuments?
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/trump-review-national-monuments-bears-ears-utah/


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April 26: President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday that could end up shrinking — or even nullifying — some large federal national monuments on protected public lands, as established since the Clinton administration. ...   Under the [1906 Antiquities] Act, only Congress, not the president, has the clear authority to reduce or nullify a monument designation. If the Trump Administration presses forward on its own, it's widely thought the matter will swiftly land in court. ... new development is largely restricted [on such lands], which is the source of heated controversy in rural towns surrounded by federal land where many residents make their living from natural resources.
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/25/525639393/trump-to-sign-executive-order-taking-aim-at-national-monuments

June 8: Attorney General Becerra to Trump Administration: Protect California’s National Monuments
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-trump-administration-protect-california%E2%80%99s-national


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June 29: America’s largest national monument is under threat

At a time when the United States should be celebrating the 11th anniversary of one of the best presidential decisions ever made to protect the ocean — the establishment of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument — American citizens are instead being asked their opinion on whether or not it should exist at all.
https://blog.conservation.org/2017/06/americas-largest-national-monument-is-under-threat/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI75mSydui3wIVCglpCh0-kARyEAAYBCAAEgI4hfD_BwE


August 7: Baltimore's Confederate statues under tarps as Trump, Stonewall Jackson descendants weigh in
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-monuments-found-20170817-story.html


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August 16: The Interior Department won’t be removing monuments to Confederate soldiers at national battlefields that are “an important part of our country’s history,” according to a spokesman.

“The National Park Service is committed to safeguarding these memorials while simultaneously educating visitors holistically and objectively about the actions, motivations and causes of the soldiers and states they commemorate,” spokesman Jeremy Barnum told E&E News.

National Park statements come after a woman was killed counter-protesting a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. The city voted to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
https://dailycaller.com/2017/08/16/trumps-interior-department-wont-be-removing-confederate-monuments-from-civil-war-battlefields/


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August 16: At monuments to Jefferson and Washington, Texans question Trump’s comparison to Confederate heroes
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2017/08/16/texans-national-monuments-respond-trump-statements-removing-washington-jefferson-tributes


August 17: Trump laments removal of 'beautiful' Confederate monuments, 'sad' to see U.S. culture 'ripped apart'
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/17/donald-trump-removal-confederate-monuments-whos-ne/


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August 17: How Germany handles monuments from Nazi and communist eras

The German case is exemplary not because Germans attained closure, but because they came to recognize that closure was neither tenable nor desirable. Instead, the processing of history is like an open wound that slowly heals only with careful debate about the often-explosive issues at stake. The United States can avoid making irreparable mistakes by learning from Germany's blunders and subsequent course corrections.

Over time, Germans have moved through three distinct phases to tackle the country's fascist legacy: erasing it, ignoring it, and consigning it to the Vergangenheitsbewältigung — German for "the enduring confrontation with the past." The experience offers seven lessons for the fight over America's Confederate past.
http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/commentary/charlottesville-nazis-germany-communists-monuments-trump-20170817.html


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August 21: Donald Trump is a monument to our past defending monuments to our past

The aftermath of Charlottesville shows it’s not 1950 anymore.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/21/16175906/donald-trump-charlottesville-confederate-monuments


August 28: Confederate Monuments Are Coming Down Across the United States. Here’s a List.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/16/us/confederate-monuments-removed.html


August 28: The tragic events in Charlottesville, Virginia, have re-ignited debate about the place of Confederate monuments in public spaces, as well as related conversations about the role of Confederate, neo-Nazi, and white supremacist imagery in American political culture. Historians have been a vocal presence in these discussions, and the American Historical Association is compiling an ongoing bibliography of the diverse perspectives of AHA members.
https://www.historians.org/news-and-advocacy/statements-and-resolutions-of-support-and-protest/aha-statement-on-confederate-monuments


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September 11: Trump marks 9/11 anniversary at Pennsylvania memorial

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have visited a memorial in Pennsylvania to mark the 9/11 attacks 17 years ago.

Mr Trump delivered a speech commemorating the airplane passengers who are thought to have charged the cockpit to stop the attackers.

Ceremonies are also being held at New York City's 9/11 Memorial plaza on the World Trade Center site.

It was deadliest foreign attack ever on US soil, killing 2,996 people.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45487709


September 11: Fox host compares 9/11 memorial to Confederate monuments
https://fox2now.com/2017/09/11/fox-host-compares-911-memorial-to-confederate-monuments/


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September 21: 'Trump rules, antifa sucks': Graffiti, swastikas scrubbed from monument near historic Madison synagogue
https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime/trump-rules-antifa-sucks-graffiti-swastikas-scrubbed-from-monument-near/article_35101556-e85a-5a1c-b38a-fe1ddb90c28f.html


September 25: State Rep. Bud Williams blames 'Trump effect' after Mason Square veterans memorial smeared with crab apples
https://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/09/veterans_memorial_at_springfie.html


October 27: Trump to shrink Utah national monuments in bid to boost drilling, mining
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-monument/trump-to-shrink-utah-national-monuments-in-bid-to-boost-drilling-mining-idUSKBN1CW2PY


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October 28: Trump agrees to shrink national monuments, yet steadfastly supports Confederate memorials

Utah congressional delegation seeks to open areas to energy and mining companies.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-plans-monument-rollback-4afdba53f636/


November 11: Trump's rain check on honoring Americans killed in WWI prompts backlash
https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-rain-check-honoring-americans-killed-wwi-prompts/story?id=59119504


December 4: Trump Orders Largest National Monument Reduction In U.S. History
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/04/567803476/trump-dramatically-shrinks-2-utah-national-monuments

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December 4: Trump takes rare step to reduce 2 national monuments in Utah
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/12/04/npr-trump-take-aim-utah-national-monuments?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI76TZqtei3wIVDi9pCh1iBQJkEAAYASAAEgID3_D_BwE


December 4: Five things to know about Trump's national monuments order
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/363180-five-things-to-know-about-trumps-national-monuments-order

December 6: Trump to Appoint Bob Wefald to American Battle Monuments Commission
https://cramer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/cramer-trump-to-appoint-bob-wefald-to-american-battle-monuments


December 6: Trump cutting Bears Ears and other national monuments sets up environmental showdown

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In reducing two national monuments by a total of two million acres this week, President Donald Trump pleased small government and business proponents in Utah -- but touched off what promises to be a furious court fight over whether he overstepped his presidential authority.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-cutting-bears-ears-other-national-monuments-sets-environmental-showdown-n826841

December 8: 7 Facts About the Trump Administration’s Illegal Attack on National Monuments
https://www.npca.org/articles/1695-7-facts-about-the-trump-administration-s-illegal-attack-on-national?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI75mSydui3wIVCglpCh0-kARyEAAYASAAEgKT-fD_BwE


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December 20: Someday, Trump will have a presidential library. Here’s what it might look like.

Matt Worthington, owner of Worthington Monuments based in Fort Worth, Texas, and the vice president of Marketing for the Monument Builders of North America association, says when it comes to building statues and memorials for individuals, “There’s a lot that goes into it.”

“We look into the person,” Worthington continues, “their accomplishments, their ideas, their family, their history, and what’s fitting for the area where the monument will be placed, too.”
https://qz.com/1162244/donald-j-trump-presidential-library-and-museum-what-will-it-look-like/

December 21: 'Trump, Jerusalem Is Ours': Israeli Military Monument Defaced With Arabic Graffiti
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-jerusalem-ours-israeli-military-monument-defaced-arabic-graffiti-755045


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January 19: Trump’s Decision To Keep Parks Open During Shutdown Puts Politics Before Safety

Former Interior Department officials warn the move endangers both visitors and America’s priceless resources.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/national-parks-trump-government-shutdown_us_5a61ea28e4b0125fd635df5a

February 2: What Trump’s Shrinking of National Monuments Actually Means

The president announced reductions to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante, but the actual picture on the ground remains highly uncertain.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/trump-shrinks-bears-ears-grand-staircase-escalante-national-monuments/


April 17: 'Father Of Gynecology,' Who Experimented On Slaves, No Longer On Pedestal In NYC
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/17/603163394/-father-of-gynecology-who-experimented-on-slaves-no-longer-on-pedestal-in-nyc


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July 3: Map of New Mining Claims in Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears February 2018

Bears Ears, National monuments, Public lands, Uranium, Maps
https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/map-new-mining-claims-grand-staircase-escalante-and-bears-ears-national-monuments-february-2018?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI75mSydui3wIVCglpCh0-kARyEAAYAiAAEgJpTfD_BwE


July 23: Trump administration officials dismissed benefits of national monuments

In a quest to shrink national monuments last year, senior Interior Department officials dismissed evidence that these public sites boosted tourism and spurred archaeological discoveries, according to documents the department released this month and retracted a day later.

The thousands of pages of email correspondence chart how Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his aides instead tailored their survey of protected sites to emphasize the value of logging, ranching and energy development that would be unlocked if they were not designated national monuments.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-officials-dismissed-benefits-of-national-monuments/2018/07/23/5b8b1666-8b9a-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html?utm_term=.d10ae2e15498

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October 1: Why Two Chefs in Small-Town Utah Are Battling President Trump

The owners of an improbably successful restaurant at the gate of a vast wilderness are fighting to keep it unspoiled.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/why-two-chefs-in-small-town-utah-decided-to-sue-president-trump


October 15: Feds spending millions to beef up security at Confederate monuments, cemeteries

The Department of Veterans Affairs has spent nearly $3 million on Confederate cemetery security since August 2017, records obtained by the AP show.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-spending-millions-beef-security-confederate-monuments-cemeteries-n920316


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October 27: Trump declares his first national monument, honoring African-American troops
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/trump-declares-his-first-national-monument-honoring-african-american-troops-1.553964

October 27: Trump declares his first national monument, honoring African-American troops
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/trump-declares-his-first-national-monument-honoring-african-american-troops-1.553964

Undated: Located in West Potomac Park, MLK’s National Memorial was unveiled in 2011. Dr. King is the first African American to be honored with a memorial along the National Mall, and only the fourth person who wasn’t a president to be remembered in such a way.
https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-2018/mlk-memorials-fd.html#quest1


November 10: Merkel, Macron Unveil Memorial Amid World War I Centenary Celebrations
https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-macron-hold-talks-on-european-defense-amid-wwi-commemorations/29593303.html


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