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The New Frontier, Part IV: Reopening the Frontier

Dec 18th, 2025

“Part III: Place Names and the War on Woke” examined how renaming functions as an ideological weapon within the so-called “War on Woke,” dividing the public, legitimizing authoritarian control, and reinscribing a nationalist and xenophobic vision of “American Greatness” onto the maps people navigate every day. “Part IV: Reopening the Frontier” shifts focus from what … Read more

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Apr 28th, 2021

A struggle over history and racial injustice is unfolding on the terrain of monuments, museums, school curricula, and maps. While authoritarians and billionaires move to remake the commemorative landscape in their image and interests, communities are pushing back—rising to reclaim and rename the ancestral, cultural, and political geographies they call home. WORDS ARE MONUMENTS is … Read more

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Words Are Monuments
Words Are Monuments