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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust museum in Washington.

I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the same, because they're not. On the other hand, there are people who want to extirpate that completely and want folks to spit on the graves of their ancestors.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

It is important never to forget our history, but parts of our history are more appropriately displayed in museums, not on government property.

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once?

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.