{"id":25768,"date":"2023-08-01T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/book-responsethe-rise-and-fall-of-americas-public-monuments-boston-norton-norton-and-company-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:43:42","slug":"book-responsethe-rise-and-fall-of-americas-public-monuments-boston-norton-norton-and-company-2023","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/book-responsethe-rise-and-fall-of-americas-public-monuments-boston-norton-norton-and-company-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Book ResponseThe Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments. Boston: Norton & Norton and Company, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Turabian 8th edition<\/strong><\/p>\n


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Book Response Expository Essay #2:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thompson, Erin L. <\/span>S<\/span>mashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments. <\/span><\/em>Boston: Norton & Norton and Company, 2023. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Write an expository essay that provides your personal responses\/feelings on the central themes of the assigned book. Your essay should not simply summarize the details of the book or give a simple plot synopsis, but rather, it should provide your personal commentary on the subjects under discussion and their connection to the themes we have discussed in this class. <\/div>\n
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Some subjects to respond to in this case may include, but are not limited to:<\/span><\/div>\n
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The role of monuments – history lessons or “pledges of allegiance” or shows of power (see p. xviii, etc.) <\/div>\n
The purpose of removing monuments (omnipresent, but see p. 8, p. 173 for example) <\/div>\n
Monuments as lessons in meritocracy, hierarchy, etc. (p. 17, etc.)<\/div>\n
Monuments as tools to repress social movements, labor unions, subaltern groups, etc. (omnipresent)<\/div>\n
Washington Monument (18)<\/div>\n
Rescue (28-)<\/div>\n
Horatio Greenough (Chapter 2)<\/div>\n
Monuments and manliness; monuments and subservience (Chapter 3)<\/div>\n
“parade rest” (46-)<\/div>\n
Brattleboro Soldiers’ Monument (53)<\/div>\n
Freedmen’s Memorial (56)<\/div>\n
Robert Gould Shaw Memorial (61)<\/div>\n
Gutzon Borglum and Stone Mountain (Chapter 4)<\/div>\n
Mount Rushmore (Chapter 4)<\/div>\n
The story of the sculptor as central to the significance of the monument (omnipresent)<\/div>\n
Sheridan Monument (70)<\/div>\n
St. Paul Columbus Monument (100) <\/div>\n
Summer 2020 and Monument Removal (101-)<\/div>\n
Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (122)<\/div>\n
Hannah Duston Memorial (146)<\/div>\n
The Spirit of the Confederacy (151)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Your essay must be between 4-5 pages of analysis that cannot include a title page or a bibliography – both of which are acceptable but not required. Your essay should be a proper expository essay, meaning, it should have a clear expression of its subject, a statement of its thesis, and a short section on the author’s methodology. Your essay must reference the book and other in-class sources (if possible) frequently, and it must properly cite its sources with footnotes that employ the Chicago-Turabian style.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turabian 8th edition Book Response Expository Essay #2: Thompson, Erin L. Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments. Boston: Norton & Norton and Company, 2023.  Write an expository essay that provides your personal responses\/feelings on the central themes of the assigned book. Your essay should not simply summarize the details of the book or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[524],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/25768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=25768"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=25768"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=25768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}