Controversial monuments and memorials : a guide for community leaders / edited by David B. Allison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allison, David B., editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

American Association for State and Local History book series.

American Association for State and Local History book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory.

Memorials--Social aspects.

Historic sites--Social aspects.

Memorials--Social aspects--United States.

Memorials.

Historic sites--Social aspects--United States.

Historic sites.

Monuments--Social aspects--United States.

Monuments.

Collective memory--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2018.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]

Summary:

"This book addresses tough issues that museum professionals, public historians, and community leaders face with the challenges of competing historical memory, claims of heritage desecration and the ongoing scourge of racism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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

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 / 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 / F. Sheffield Hale

Empty pedestals: what should be done with civic monuments to the Confederacy and its leaders? / Civil War Times

From Columbus to Serra and beyond / David B. Allison

Native voices at Little Bighorn national monument / Gerard Baker

Should the statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the American Museum of Natural History be removed? : A possible compromise / William S. Walker

Group behavior, self-examination and clearing the air around controversial issues / David B. Allison

Confederate memorials : choosing futures for our past, a veteran's perspective / George McDaniel

Speech upon the removal of Confederate statues from New Orleans, may 19, 2017 / Mitch Landrieu

A reflection of us : the Simpsons and heroes of the past / Jose Zuniga

"The struggle to overcome the negatives of the past" : Germany's Vergangenheitsbewältigung and South Africa's truth and reconciliation program / David B. Allison

"We as citizens." : approaches to memorialization by sites of conscience around the world / Linda Norris

Listening and responding to community : a long view / David B. Allison

Confederate statues at the University of Texas at Austin / Ben Wright

Honoring El Movimiento : the Chicano movement in Colorado / JJ Lonsinger Rutherford

Not what's broken ; what's healed : women in El Barrio and the healing power of community / Vanessa Cuervo Forero

Telling the whole story : education and interpretation in support of #1 in civil rights : the African American freedom struggle in St. Louis / Elizabeth Pickard

Project say something's whose monument project : not tearing down history, but building up hope / Brian Murphy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 14, 2021).

ISBN:

979-82-16-43623-2

1-5381-1374-0

OCLC:

1038716307