{"id":12439,"date":"2020-06-16T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12439"},"modified":"2020-06-21T18:03:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T01:03:15","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-on-removing-confederate-statues-and-the-erasing-of-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-on-removing-confederate-statues-and-the-erasing-of-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson on removing Confederate statues and the erasing of American History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\nWhat began as a call to remove the statues of some Confederate leaders&nbsp;has escalated into a full-on debate over whether getting rid of historical monuments is really helping support racial equality or simply erasing a part of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\">American<\/a>&nbsp;history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/d\/victor-davis-hanson\">Victor Davis Hanson<\/a>, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, put\u00a0the debate\u00a0into historical context. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/victor-davis-hanson-on-the-erasing-of-american-history\">Watch the video here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What began as a call to remove the statues of some Confederate leaders&nbsp;has escalated into a full-on debate over whether getting rid of historical monuments is really helping support racial equality or simply erasing a part of&nbsp;American&nbsp;history.&nbsp; Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, put\u00a0the debate\u00a0into historical context. Watch the video here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3eD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11718,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/waging-war-against-the-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":12439,"position":0},"title":"Waging War Against the Dead","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The 21st century is in danger of becoming an era of statue smashing and historical erasure. Not since the iconoclasts of the Byzantine Empire or the epidemic of statue destruction during the French Revolution has the world seen anything like the current war on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Civil War&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Civil War","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/civil-war\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10514,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-double-standard-in-the-progressive-war-against-the-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":12439,"position":1},"title":"The Double Standard in the Progressive War against the Dead","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 Will Progressives erase the history of their racist heroes, or only their racist enemies? \u00a0 Much of the country has demanded the elimination of references to, and images of, people of the past \u2014 from Christopher Columbus to Robert E. Lee \u2014 who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Civil War&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Civil War","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/civil-war\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12523,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/where-are-the-new-heroes-of-the-revolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":12439,"position":2},"title":"Where Are the New Heroes of the Revolution?","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Since late May, the United States has been convulsed by a cultural revolution unlike any seen in its recent history. Statues have been toppled, often without any logic or consistent grievance. Institutions have been renamed, again without coherent consistency. Christian iconography has been a\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10643,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10643-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":12439,"position":3},"title":"From An Angry Reader: Dear\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Dear Mr. Hanson, I\u2019m a black Ivy-League educated liberal raised in NC and something in me snapped last week. Have no fear, I\u2019m still in the liberal camp, but it perturbs me greatly to see all the hoopla over Confederate memorials. This is so not important\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10586,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10586-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":12439,"position":4},"title":"09\/15\/2017 From An Angry Reader:\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"09\/15\/2017 From An Angry Reader: Angry Reader Sam Davidson Victor, I enjoy reading your articles in the National Review. I never understood why this country has statues that honor people that took up arms against the United States. 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