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.
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
Dont 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 Frasers 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 Veterans
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:
GermanysVergangenheitsbewältigung and South Africas 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 Somethings Whose Monument Project: Not Tearing Down History,
But Building Up Hope, Brian Murphy
28. Changing of the Guard: Curating a New Conversation Around Colorados
Toppled Civil War Monument, Jason L. Hanson
CONCLUSION
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
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.
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