The Problem With Putting People on Pedestals

Protesters gather around Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square during the Black Lives Matter protest rally in London, Sunday, June 7, 2020.

William Sturkey, assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and recipient of the Zocalo Prize for his most recent book Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White (Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2019), talks about the recent toppling of Confederate and non-Confederate statues, and takes your calls.