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Ancient Egyptian scribe statues usually depict their owners seated cross-legged on the ground, often holding some form of scribal apparatus such as a papyrus or palette. This study traces the historical development of the ancient Egyptian scribe statue, and its related sculpture…

This thesis uses the Christopher Columbus monument by Moses Ezekiel that previously stood at Arrigo Park to interrogate the whiteness of Italians in Chicago. By exploring the monument's provenance from the 1893 Columbian Exposition all the way to the summer of 2020, this thesis …

This is a public history study of statues and monuments, and the stories they commemorate. “Teedyuscung, a Man, a Statue” examines, specifically, Native American statue and monument commemorations. I begin with the Tedyuscung Statue in Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley. In exami…