MONUMENTS AND THE AMERICAN SOUL

Monuments and the American Soul is a globe-spanning meditation on shrines, statues and monuments that explores how our memory of the past not only created the flash-point moment we inhabit - but shapes the understanding that future generations will inherit. This deep-dive knits together a constellation of controversies, starting with Emperor HiroHito’s American-abetted escape from the hangman’s noose, the poisoning of the American memory of the Civil War, all the way to Thomas Jefferson’s Slaves and culminating with the 2020 mass-protests currently raging at the foot of Robert E. Lee’s Statue in Virginia. Born as an OpEd article (currently available on Medium) this conversation has been given new sonic life, rendered in that gripping, immersive style only WarDaddy can deliver.