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- Cover of the New Yorker magazine from September 2001, memorializing the Twin Towers in black and gray
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- AIDS quilt displayed on the grass near the Washington Monument
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- Busts of artists, all men, removed from Gould Memorial Library, now located at NYU library
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- Monumental bronze sculpture of Ben Franklin at his printing press, Philadelphia, PA
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- Entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland–maintained as a memorial
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- Ghost bike–memorial to dead cyclist
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- Like the ring pictured here, jewelry made from or incorporating the hair of a dead loved one was commonplace in the 19th century
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- Vintage postcard–Hall of Fame of Great Americans, Bronx, NY
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- Part of the Lynching Memorial and Museum in Montgomery, AL–jars with soil taken from lynching sites, marked with the names of those lynched
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- Many small temporary American flags mounted on the green at Gramercy Park, NY–Memorial Day 2018
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- Street memorial for Junior, teen killed at 183rd St, June 2018
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- Orange and white ribbons tied to a cast iron fence to represent immigrant detainees at the southern U.S. border, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
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- Memorial monument at Green Wood Cemetary, Brooklyn, NY
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- Entrance to the torture center–detail from the Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance, Santo Domingo, DR
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- Mural memorial from Union Street in Brooklyn, NY
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- Memorial mural, Bronx, NY
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- Shoes in memory of those killed by Hurricane Maria in front of the Puerto Rican Capitol, June 2018. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)
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- The removal of a statue of Vladimir Lenin, previously honored by the U.S.S.R.
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- Empty site of bust of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Hall of Fame of Great Americans, Bronx Community College, Bronx, NY
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- Mounted equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, VA, site of the “Unite the Right” rally and counterprotest in August 2017
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- Memorial to gynecological surgeon Marion Sims, now removed, Central Park, NY
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- Statue of Theodore Roosevelt and companions in front of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City
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- Piles of flowers at street-corner memorial for children killed by a reckless driver in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
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- Flowers, signs, flags, and other tribute outside Stonewall after the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando
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- My Uncle Sam’s W.W. I medals
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- Removal of statue of Saddam Hussein by U.S. troops, Baghdad, Iraq
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- Arch in Washington Square Park, New York, NY–with cage sculpture by Ai Weiwei
