On this week's episode of History Reconsidered, Sumantra Maitra and Jarrett Stepman discuss the attempt by National Park Service to remove a William Penn Statue in front of his historic home in Philadelphia. Penn was the founder of the Pennsylvania colony. The move was rejected after it ignited a social media firestorm and political pushback. Is this a model for future efforts to stop the widespread iconoclasm in the West?

They talk about Stepman's 2019 book, "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite the Past" and explain what the attempts to remove historical monuments are all about.

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