Monuments and Memorials
Here are some of the questions you may wish to answer about the monument. What is the purpose of the monument? How does it make its claim? What rhetorical strategies are in play to make that argument? What are its strengths and weaknesses, its most appealing and most unattractive elements?
What is being contested here? Who is empowered by it, and who is disempowered? What story is it telling us about history?