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The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police officer last year sparked a wave of social justice protests, including ones targeting monuments that celebrate segregationists, slave-owners, conquistadors and Confederate leaders. Since then, about 160 monuments have come down, but roughly 2,000 remain standing.\xa0

We teamed up with Type Investigations to visit dozens of Confederate monuments and found that for devoted followers, they inspire a disturbing \u2013 and distorted \u2013 view of history: Confederate generals as heroes. Slaves who were happy to work for them. That twisted history is also shared with schoolchildren on class trips. And you won\u2019t believe who\u2019s funding these sites to keep them running.\xa0

\nThen, reporter Stan Alcorn follows the story of New Mexico\u2019s great monument controversy. In 1998, the state was set to celebrate its cuarto centenario: the 400th anniversary of the state\u2019s colonization by the Spanish. But a dramatic act of vandalism would turn the making of a monument in Albuquerque into a fight over history the city didn\u2019t expect.

\nThis show is an update from a 2020 episode that was based on reporting originally broadcast Dec. 8, 2018.