History in Our Everyday Lives

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.03.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. An Overview
  2. The School by the Avenue
  3. Essential Questions
  4. The Content
  5. Why Public Art?
  6. The Origins of Monument Avenue and the Robert E. Lee Statue
  7. Richmond’s Connection to the Civil War, A Brief Overview
  8. The Other Confederate Monuments
  9. The Politics of Power and Voice
  10. Arthur Ashe, The Man
  11. Arthur Ashe, The Monument
  12. The Planning Process
  13. The Politics of Public Art
  14. Strategies
  15. Activities
  16. The Summative Activity
  17. Virginia State Standards
  18. Bibliography
  19. Notes

Richmond’s Divisive Monuments: A Look into One City’s Debate over Public Art, Memory, and History

Jeanne Callahan

Published September 2015

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Essential Questions

This unit study of the Arthur Ashe monument will promote inquiry into American identity and memory as presented in the texts we read. During this unit, and throughout the year, students will contemplate the following guiding questions:

  • What forms a place’s identity?
  • How does local historical research help us to understand our everyday surroundings? How do texts (including public art) become political?
  • How do texts (including public art) contribute to a community’s identity?
  • How do logical arguments reach conflicting conclusions?
  • How should the South be represented iconographically in the 21stcentury?4

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