In the Spring of 2021, I investigated the laws and programs surrounding the protection of historic monuments in the United States, and more specifically, South Carolina. This investigation of the law was in done in context with the controversy that surrounds Confederate monuments in the South. Below are three videos: Part I scopes out public opinion on Confederate monuments, Part II lays out the laws surrounding public monuments, and Part III tells the stories behind some of the monuments near Winthrop University.