Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins, Monuments, and Memorials, ed. Jeanette Bicknell, Jennifer Judkins, and Carolyn Korsmeyer, 2019
There has long been controversy over the exclusion of the names of Harvard men who died for the C... more There has long been controversy over the exclusion of the names of Harvard men who died for the Confederacy from the university's Memorial Hall. Most memorials, including this one, function as constituents of the social fabric that affirm unity. A failed attempt to place the names of Harvard's Confederate dead in Harvard's Memorial Church, as an alternative to their inclusion in Memorial Hall, reveals the near impossibility of acknowledging division within a community in the form of a material monument. Such a conception of the monument represents an ideal rarely achieved outside the writing of history.
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