Category: statue removal

A New Schuyler Statue for Albany

Commentary​ ​Before dawn on a recent Saturday morning, another statue of a “slave owner” was removed—this time Revolutionary War General Philip Schuyler, a pivotal figure in Albany and American history, who had stood in front of the Albany, New York, City Hall for nearly 100 years. Nevertheless, Mayor Kathy Sheehan explained that “Moving the Schuyler…


Democrats Propose Abraham Lincoln Statue Removal

Democrat and Confederate president Jefferson may have been unable to expel president Abraham Lincoln from the capitol, but Democrat delegate Eleanor Norton (D-D.C.) might. Norton, Washington D.C.’s non-voting Congressional representative, reintroduced legislation to remove a statue of Lincoln with a kneeling freed slave. The statue has stood in Lincoln Park near the Capitol since 1876….


Charlottesville Removes Confederate Robert E. Lee Statue

A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was taken down in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, nearly four years after protests over plans to remove it led to clashes in which a woman was run down by a car and killed. Shortly after the removal of the Lee statue, a statue of Confederate General Thomas…