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Think Confederate monuments are racist? Consider pioneer monuments

  • Written by: Cynthia Prescott, Associate Professor of History, University of North Dakota
'Early Days.' Detail of Frank Happersberger's pioneer monument, San Francisco, California, 1894. Photo by Lisa Allen.Cynthia Prescott, CC BY-SA

In San Francisco, there is an an 800-ton monument that retells California history, from the Spanish missions to American settlement. Several bronze sculptures and relief plaques depict American Indians,...

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