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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/american-monuments-residue-history/"></div><p>On August 11th and 12th, a white supremacist mob descended on the town of Charlottesville, Virginia, ostensibly to protest the removal of a statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The protest erupted into violence, culminating with one of its members driving a car into a group of counterprotesters, leaving one dead and many injured. “Sad,” Trump tweeted, “to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.” Pursuing this line of thought, Trump wondered where this anti-monumental carnage was going to end: “who’s next,” he rhetorically asked, “Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!” <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/american-monuments-residue-history/#more-5020" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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American Monuments and the Residue of History

John Levi Barnard is an assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster. His essays and articles have appeared in <em>American Literature</em> and <em>PMLA</em>, and his first book, <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/empire-of-ruin-9780190663599?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;"><em>Empire of Ruin: Black Classicism and American Imperial Culture</em></a>, will be out from Oxford University Press in October.