Tag Archives: Contextualization

David G. Sansing saw the bigger picture. His list of accolades is long, but the moment those close to him particularly remember his pride swelling was...

In the spirit of promoting a better and more complete appreciation of the current protests of the Confederate monument, it has occurred to me that the...

An era that was ushered in by a Sugar Bowl victory and a Carnegie academic research honor came to a close on Friday with the state education board’s...

The contextualization plaque in front of our school’s Confederate monument is an interesting commentary on university policy. The plaque discusses the...

Almost exactly two years ago, a white man connected to the university made a racist Facebook post that garnered national attention and sparked conversation...

To the Editor, Standing alone, the Confederate monument situated prominently at the entrance to the Ole Miss campus could reasonably be taken as the glorification...

Last month, the University of Mississippi and the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on History and Context (CACHC) unveiled several contextualization plaques,...

Essentially, contextualization doesn’t work with Confederate statues in public spaces because it’s a policy based exclusively on the white experience....

The contextualization plaque and decorative base of the Confederate statue in the Circle were fixed after a driver crashed into them earlier this semester....

As secession fever swept the Slave South, young white men joined state militias en masse. By May 1861, only four months after Mississippi leaders declared...