Nyt headline Christopher Columbus Statue Is Installed on White House Grounds

A really bad 3D print of Baltimore’s fallen statue of Columbus

Nyt: “A statue of Christopher Columbus was installed on the grounds of the White House early Sunday morning, as part of President Trump's effort to position the explorer as a hero after monuments to him were removed across the country.”

A passive-aggressive plaque that reads: “Christopher Columbus "Discoverer of America" October 12, 1492 Dedicated by Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer and President Ronald W. Reagan, October 8, 1984 Destroyed July 4, 2020 Resurrected 2022 Gifted to the White House by the Italian American Organizations United, Inc., of Baltimore in October 2025 Rededicated by President Donald J. Trump, October 13, 2025”

a 3D-printed replica of the Columbus statue toppled in Baltimore in 2020 has been installed at the White House.

as I argue in the Preface to the paperback of #everymonumentwillfall, we need a new global conversation about the democratic right to public memory

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/a...

(2/3) Many have written about that. For my own part, I did so in #BrutishMuseums, and again in #EveryMonumentWillFall. Now we need collectively to contextualise this propaganda and resist its framing every time we encounter it.

for 600-page version of this post see www.penguin.co.uk/books/452252... #everymonumentwillfall

LONDON -- come to hear me speak about "The unfinished story of the Worcester College Skull Cup" at the @antiquaries.bsky.social on Thursday 19 Feb at 5pm
free, registration required >> www.danhicks.uk/talks
#Everymonumentwillfall

Oxford's monument to the origins of Apartheid still stands on High Street, despite Oriel College’s democratic decision relocate it. How can this image of Rhodes still be here, when Rhodes has fallen in Lusaka (1964), Bulawayo (1980) & Cape Town (2015)? Now there's a question. #everymonumentwillfall

Every Monument Will Fall, Dan Hicks (2025) (EMPIRE LINES Live at Common Ground, Oxford)

Just published - a new #EveryMonumentWillFall podcast

Empire Lines X Dan Hicks, recorded with a live audience at Oxford's Common Ground in October

find it here on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts >> open.spotify.com/episode/3Yv1...

✨✨happy holidays to all — and a reminder that there’s still time to get down to your favourite independent bookseller and gift someone a copy of #EveryMonumentWillFall, or give it to yourself — or even listen to me reading it all out wherever you get your audiobooks www.danhicks.uk/every-monume...

there’s a few of these #everymonumentwillfall postcards at Bookmarks Socialist Bookshop in London — go and pick one up if you’re near Bloomsbury/Tottenham Court Road #StayWithTheFragments

Curator at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, to give 2026 Lancaster History Lecture - Lancaster University The Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, will give the 2026 Lancaster History Lecture, it was announced today.

I’m delighted to be giving the 2026 Lancaster History Lecture, as part of the Lancaster Literary Festival — following in the footsteps of @sathnam.bsky.social and Helen Castor, talking about #everymonumentwillfall

see you there on March 18th ✨❤️🙏

www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/curator...

Books Fourteen writers, artists, and scholars choose the year’s outstanding titles.

honoured to see #everymonumentwillfall named as an @artforum.com book of 2025 www.artforum.com/lists/best-o...

"Grounded, textured, and often beautifully wry" - thank you Lee Bilson for this mini-review of #everymonumentwillfall on LinkedIn

Thank you again to Cité University for hosting me to talk about #everymonumentwillfall this evening

Watch out for the one near you - UK,Ireland, France #everymonumentwillfall

💥AUTUMN BOOK TOUR💥

#everymonumentwillfall in Oxford, Brighton, Paris, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, London (x3), Nottingham

dates throughout Oct-Nov 2025

details/tickets >> danhicks.uk/talks

heatre of operation, Europe included These histories are closer than you might think. They're not even histories. I mean, this is about the here and now. And yet you still sometimes hear people talking about 'postcolonialism', as if coloni-alism, in these many different forms, were simply over. Just open a newspaper or doomscroll your social media, from Russian imperialism in Ukraine, to Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, to a newly confident far right in Germany, Britain and the United States. The question of whether the idea of postcolonialism was ahis-torical, de-politicising or simply overly optimistic was discussed quite a lot in the Nineties. Scholars like Anne McClintock questioned how it seemed to involve an 'entranced suspension of history', suggesting that in reality 'colonialism returns at the moment of its disappearance. Arif Dirlik argued the term was even 'celebratory of the so-called end of colonialism' - since it implied that the project of 'decolonisation' in the post-war period was genuine rather than spurious or partial.' Today the idea of 'postcolonialism' is best classed alongside that other fin-de-siècle narrative, the right-wing claim of 'the end of history', which was the counterpart of the story of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a last victory for capitalism as if it brought wars to an end. Call it late colonialism if you like, whether in war, securitisation and policing, in cultural policy or culture war, but call it colonialism. A nostalgia for that theoretical prefix 'post' is now obstructing understanding and explanation of this ongoing militarism.

#everymonumentwillfall

A Florida university is putting up a statue to Charlie Kirk. More monuments will doubtless follow. The analogies some are drawing with the Reichstag fire miss the point. The analogy is clear, it’s a history I discuss on page 82 of #everymonumentwillfall — the Schlageter Cult ☠️

it was a privilege to speak with Stanford’s Professor David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social about my book #EveryMonumentWillFall last month for his #speakingoutofplace podcast

our conversation is now online here >> speakingoutofplace.com/2025/08/09/e...

(2/3) In #EveryMonumentWillFall I dig into the historical connections between how universities, monuments and museums were weaponised for cultural supremacism in the right's infinity war on culture, including the so-called "Lost Cause" - now intensifying and evolving under Trump.

thank you Claire, looking forward to talking about #everymonumentwillfall with you next week ✨🙏

catch up with me and DJ and journalist Nihal Arthanayake talking anthropology, museums, legacy colonialism and respect for the ancestors on @bbc5live.bsky.social

talking with Nihal about my new book #everymonumentwillfall was a genuine privilege and a pleasure

> www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🔥✨❤️💥

Highgate School holds funeral for biology department skeleton The 200-year-old bones of a ‘non-European’ woman were buried in the grounds amid calls for reforms in how human remains are treated in the UK

A bizarre story of a literal skeleton in the closet at Highgate public school, and one that shines a light on a wider set of issues — as I argue in #EveryMonumentWillFall we need regulation for legacy colonial collections of ancestral remains now
www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

I should add I've been listening to @profdanhicks.bsky.social #EveryMonumentWillFall for about the last thousand years so I'm currently all about subverting the colonial narrative.

What a joyful 🌟event at the brilliant
#HousmansRadicalBookshop last night with Dan Hicks & Onyekachi Wambu! Mid convo I spotted Daisy J. Hung ‘s book so I had to get it! Big crowd outside too, waiting for Will Smith to arrive! Dan has a way of adding a little ✨ to his events!
#EveryMonumentWillFall

what an amazing evening at Housmans Radical Bookshop in London with Dr Mai Musié and
Onyekachi Wambu — thank you so much to all those who came, and especially to the brilliant bookshop team! #everymonumentwillfall

www.penguin.co.uk/books/452252...

💥it was a privilege to be interviewed by the #SpeakingArchaeologically crew about #everymonumentwillfall

thanks so much to Shriya and Simran for such insightful and thoughtful questions and generous hosting

check out our conversation on their spotify channel link here >> www.danhicks.uk/media

As I put it in #EveryMonumentWillFall, when describing this kind of basic failure of leadership:

"There's a word for it in German, as you might imagine. Vorauseilender Gehorsam. Look it up. It means something like 'anticipatory obedience'"

🎧Listen out for me talking about museums, restitution and the new global conversation about ancestral remains in the storerooms

💥TONIGHT 22.20 with Henry Bonsu on @listentotimesradio.bsky.social

✨TOMORROW 07.20 with @matthew-wright.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk

#EveryMonumentWillFall #BrutishMuseums

“This has to be about more than just returning the Benin Bronzes” #everymonumentwillfall

It's a basic democratic right for a community, institution (or in this case congregation) to be able to choose to shape and reshape its memory culture—rather than being forced to keep every last memorial to a coloniser or enslaver #EveryMonumentWillFall

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a wonderful packed-out book launch for #everymonumentwillfall here in Berlin this evening —next stop Bonn on Friday! ❤️✨🙏