Weirdo American History Note of the Week

I will be reviewing this book here soon, but I'm going to mention this classic moment of American history now. In 1923, a bill passed the U.S. Senate directing acceptance of a monument to be built "in memory of the faithful colored mammies of the South." For some reason the House didn't pick up on the bill. I can't wait to teach that this fall.

From Sanford Levinson, Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies. Duke, 1998