Who owns America’s history?

National Geographic, February 2021

N.B. Most of these questions are all very open, there’s not only one correct
answer. I want you to read the article, understand, and make some reflections.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/who-owns-americas-
history-the-answer-will-define-what-replaces-fallen-monuments-feature

1. Make a wordlist (15- 20words) with words from the text. Words that are
new to you, and/or that you think can be useful to you and your friends.

2. What is said about the Confederate flag?

3. Who were the best known leaders of the Confederacy? Give a short
description.

4. What do you think about the quote from William Faulkner?

5. Quaker Oats and Mars Foods took a special decision recently. What was
it and what do you think about it?

6. Go through the diagrams and map in Monumental Undertaking and

Rebel reach. Pick out something you find noticeable and comment on it.

7. Choose one of the pictures and make a short comment.

8. Ther UDC defends the Confederate monuments. What do they say?

9. What symbols from our past should be reconsidered or
discarded? What stories demand a more complete and honest
retelling? How should history be taught or more fully
contextualized? And finally, who owns history? (NGM Feb-21)