Resources
Henry "Box" Brown Memorial, 2001, Box Brown Plaza, Richmond, Virginia. Photograph by Renée Ater.
The "Resources" tab provides additional resources related to the monument landscape and teaching slavery. Current resources include:
- Visualizing Monuments, a map that overlays sites of existing Confederate monuments collected and tracked by the Southern Poverty Law Center with contemporary monuments collected and archived by this project.
- National Monument Audit (2020), a study of the monument landscape in the United States.
- The Relic Report, New Monuments Taskforce, San Francisco (2020), an unofficial municipal study of San Francisco monuments conducted by the New Monuments Taskforce. It investigated eight-seven (87) monuments in San Francisco Arts Commission's Civic Art Collection.
- Monument Lab Field Trip, a hands-on activity guide to help you engage monuments in your city or town.
- Writing About Slavery? Teaching About Slavery?, a community-sourced guide to assist those writing about and teaching slavery.
- Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, an open-source K-12 framework for teaching about American chattel slavery.
- Key Concepts: Teaching American Slavery, ten key concepts for understanding American chattel slavery.
- Engaging Descendant Communities Rubric, a report and rubric of the best ideas and practices for teaching slavery in a more engaging and inclusive manner that incorporates the stories and experiences of enslaved people through the voices of their descendants.
- Transatlantic Slave Trade, offers brief discussions of the transatlantic slave trade, the domestic slave trade in the United States, and slavery and the law.
Coming soon a working bibliography, and syllabus on monuments, history, and memory.
Updated January 26, 2026.