Review of state monuments, statues begins at Statehouse – Capitol News IL

Landscape architecture professor David Hays of the University of Illinois spoke to the committee about how monuments can be used as forms of oppression: “And here, it's important to recall that history is not the same as the past. The past refers to events or conditions that have already occurred and cannot be altered. In contrast, history is the way the past is represented, interpreted and understood. So history is always made in the present.”