Associate Professor of History, University of North Dakota
Author of _Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier_ (University of Arizona Press, 2007) and several articles, most recently in _Pacific Historical Review_. My new book, _Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory_, will be published by University of Oklahoma Press in spring 2019. I am also developing a companion website, http://pioneermonuments.net.
Think Confederate monuments are racist? Consider pioneer monuments
Aug 08, 2018 13:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views
In San Francisco, there is an an 800-ton monument that retells California history, from the Spanish missions to American settlement. Several bronze sculptures and relief plaques depict American Indians, white miners,...
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