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Monday’s Monument: Battle of Nashville Peace Monument, Nashville, Tennessee

Monday’s Monument: Battle of Nashville Peace Monument, Nashville, Tennessee

by Susan | Dec 14, 2020 | Monuments

The Ladies Battlefield Association commissioned Italian artist Guiseppe Moretti for this monument, dedicated on Armistice Day 1927, to all those who fought during the 1864 Battle of Nashville. The marble obelisk and angel were destroyed in the tornadoes of 1974; the...
Monday’s Monument: Children’s Holocaust (Paper Clip) Memorial, Whitwell, Tennessee

Monday’s Monument: Children’s Holocaust (Paper Clip) Memorial, Whitwell, Tennessee

by Susan | Sep 28, 2020 | Monuments

In 1998 a Whitwell Middle School History class discussing World War II learned that six million Jews were slaughtered in the Nazi camps. A student asked how big six million is; another student read that people from Norway wore paperclips as a symbol of resistance...
Monday’s Monument: Clinton 12: Walking Into History, Clinton, Tennessee

Monday’s Monument: Clinton 12: Walking Into History, Clinton, Tennessee

by Susan | May 11, 2020 | Monuments

On August 27, 1956, twelve African American young people from Clinton, Tennessee, became the first students to desegregate a public high school in the American South. This was a year before the more famous integration of Little Rock High School in Arkansas. Black...

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