Editor's note: The SAH “Statement on the Removal of Monuments to the Confederacy from Public Spaces” was approved and adopted by the SAH Board of Directors, posted on the SAH website, and circulated via email and social media on 19 June 2020. The following letter was sent to JSAH on 23 June. Though the statement had not yet appeared in the journal, it was decided that this response should be published now rather than later, given the timeliness of the issues that the statement and the letter address. —KE

Letter to the Editor

As a longtime non-American member of SAH, I wish to disassociate myself from the “Statement on the Removal of Monuments to the Confederacy from Public Spaces” adopted on 19 June 2020 by the Heritage Conservation Committee of the Society of Architectural Historians. Furthermore, as a European, raised on a continent strewn with monuments of profoundly problematic political...

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