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America Reframed

Town Destroyer | History's Impact: Trauma vs. Catalyst

Whether it be a name or a monument, what harm can it bring? Jessica Young explains how the repeated experience of seeing something like "dead Indian" in Victor Anautoff's "Life in Washington" murals can traumatize while Pete Galindo shares how, even though he grew up with violence around him, a work of art depicting violence would instead validate and empower him.