The Afterlife of Confederate Statues
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The long debate over what to do with UT’s Confederate statues seems to have finally come to an end — mostly. But as UT is finding, once the statues come down, the story isn’t over. Instead, there’s a whole new set of questions: what should be done with those statues? Where do they belong, how do we make sense of their value, and what can they tell us about the past? And, what should happen with the spaces where they used to stand?   We’ll be exploring those questions on this episode of Death and Numbers. The answers will take us deep into UT’s archives, and out onto a walking tour of the campus, as we meet some of the people invested in the afterlife of UT’s confederate statues. This episode is hosted by Caroline Pinkston.
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