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Jonathan Beecher Field

Jonathan Beecher Field was born in Boston and educated in the Midwest. He is an associate professor of English Literature at Clemson University. Portions of this essay are adapted from a longer article appearing in American Literature and the New Puritan Studies, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

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Statue Mania

Focusing only on Confederate monuments misses that racism is memorialized everywhere.

Jonathan Beecher Field

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