“Monument’s Lab’s groundbreaking Re:Generation functions as both archive and field guide. Through meticulous mapping of how the landscape of U.S. national history occludes and erases, Monument Lab developed Re:Generation to recalibrate our engagement with the past. The book’s detailed case studies document how the creation of new monuments can function as a laboratory for new forms and forums of civic participation. Monument Lab: Re:Generation offers its readers a primer for twenty-first-century democratic action.”—Mabel O. Wilson, Chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies, and Nancy and George E. Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University

“Monument Lab’s Re:Generation is a national treasure. This powerful book takes readers inside ten local collaborations around Black, Indigenous, Asian American, Appalachian, and Latinx histories that are making transformative change in how we approach, represent, and understand the landscapes of the past. In our present moment of state-sanctioned historical erasure, the imaginative visions and creative methods that infuse these marvelous co-created projects are even more vital if we are to truly come to terms with the diverse and complex dimensions of the nation’s collective memory.”—Mark Philip Bradley, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of History at the University of Chicago, and editor of the American Historical Review

“Monument Lab: Re:Generation is a living archive of resistance, joy, and reclamation. Each project honors stories that have been pushed to the margins and transforms them into monuments that breathe, speak, and move with their communities. This is the work of memory-keepers: artists, organizers, and visionaries who understand that the most powerful monuments are not made of stone but of relationships, truths, and acts of care. Together, they expand the commemorative landscape to reflect the complexity of our histories and the beauty of our survival.”—Wendy Red Star, Artist and 2024 McArthur Fellow