Controversial Monuments and Memorials

A Guide for Community Leaders

Buch | Softcover

334 Seiten

2023 | Second Edition
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7382-4 (ISBN)

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The impetus for the first edition was violent actions---the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, which was touched off by discussions about removing a statue to Robert E. Lee, and resulted in the death of Heather Heyer. Since the publication of the first edition, both history and democracy are being threatened in ways that we were only seeing small glimpses of in 2018. Today, attempts to elevate new or more complex history has been met with vilification. States across the country have passed legislation to ban critical race theory from being taught in public schools and are seeking ways to limit what teachers are allowed to teach about slavery and race in the United States. These threats are unlikely to abate. As such, our responsibility as historians, community leaders, museum professionals, and citizens is to redouble our efforts to share human stories in relatable ways and to exercise our rights and wield our power whenever and however we can.

The revised edition tackles the great issues of our time against the backdrop of monument culture and historical truth.

David B. Allison is a member of the Arts & History team at the City and County of Broomfield. He is the author of Living History: Effective Costumed Interpretation and Enactment at Museums and Historic Sites (2016) and has worked in museums for almost 20 years. Getting his start in museums at Conner Prairie Interactive History Park, and with a nine-year tenure at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Allison seeks to connect with people to illuminate important stories.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF TERMS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

Charlottesville, Memory and How to Read this Book

Part I: MUSEUMS, CONTROVERSY AND THE PAST

Chapter

History as Legend and Myth as Fact, David B. Allison

Confronting Confederate Monuments in the Twenty-First Century, Modupe Labode

History, Memory, and the Struggle for the Future, W. Todd Groce

“No Sooner Was It Over, than the Memory Made It Nobler”, Bob Beatty

Part II: THE CIVIL WAR, RECONSTRUCTION AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF RACISM

Chapter

Remembering the Civil War, David B. Allison

Memorializing the Confederate Past at Gettysburg During the Civil Rights and Cold War Era, Jill Ogline Titus

Tributes to the Past, Present, and Future: World War I-Era Confederate Memorialization in Virginia, Edited for Revised Edition, Thomas R. Seabrook

Don’t Call Them Memorials, Julian C. Chambliss

A Lost Cause in the Bluegrass: Two Confederate Monuments in Lexington, Kentucky,Stuart W. Sanders

Challenging Historical Remembrance, Myth, and Identity: The Confederate Monuments Debate, Edited for Revised Edition, F. Sheffield Hale

Empty Pedestals: What should be done with Civic Monuments to the Confederacy and its Leaders?, Civil War Times

Part III: NATIVE PEOPLES AND WHITE-WASHED HISTORY

Chapter

From Columbus to Serra and Beyond, David B. Allison

Native Voices at Little Bighorn National Monument, Gerard Baker

The Removal of James Earle Fraser’s Statue of Theodore Roosevelt from the American Museum of Natural History, William S. Walker

Part IV: IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE RATIONAL AND SYMPATHETIC MINDS

Chapter

15. Group Behavior, Self-examination and Clearing the Air around Controversial Issues,David B. Allison

16. Confederate Memorials: Choosing Futures for Our Past, A Veteran’s Perspective,George McDaniel

17. Speech upon the Removal of Confederate Statues from New Orleans, May 19, 2017,Mitch Landrieu

18. A Reflection of Us: The Simpsons and Heroes of the Past, Edited for Revised Edition, Jose Zuniga

Part V: COMMUNITY RESPONSIVENESS AND HISTORICAL RE-CONTEXTUALIZATION

Chapter

19. “The Struggle to Overcome the Negatives of the Past”: Germany’sVergangenheitsbewältigung and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Program, DavidB. Allison

20. “We as Citizens.…”: Approaches to Memorialization by Sites of Conscience around the World, Edited for Revised Edition, Linda Norris

21. Monumental Relationships: International Monument Culture and the United States in the Early 21st Century, Laura A. Macaluso

22. Listening and Responding to Community: A Long View, David B. Allison

23. Confederate Statues at the University of Texas at Austin, Ben Wright

24. Honoring El Movimiento: the Chicano Movement in Colorado, JJ Lonsinger Rutherford

25. Not What's Broken; What's Healed: Women in El Barrio and the Healing Power of Community, Vanessa Cuervo Forero

26. Telling the Whole Story: Education and Interpretation in Support of #1 in Civil Rights: The African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Elizabeth Pickard

27. Project Say Something’s Whose Monument Project: Not Tearing Down History, But Building Up Hope, Brian Murphy

28. Changing of the Guard: Curating a New Conversation Around Colorado’s Toppled Civil War Monument, Jason L. Hanson

CONCLUSION

Appendix

Bibliography

Index

About the Editor and Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	American Association for State and Local History
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Technik ► Architektur
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-5381-7382-4 / 1538173824
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-7382-4 / 9781538173824
Zustand	Neuware