Controversial Monuments and Memorials

A Guide for Community Leaders
Herausgeber: Allison, David B.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• American Association for State and Local History
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9781538113738
• ISBN-10: 1538113732
• Artikelnr.: 51305560

Autorenporträt

Edited by David B. Allison

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF TERMS INTRODUCTION Charlottesville, Memory and How to Read this Book MUSEUMS, CONTROVERSY AND THE PAST 1.History as Legend and Myth as Fact David B. Allison 2.Confronting Confederate Monuments in the Twenty-First Century Modupe Labode 3.History, Memory, and the Struggle for the Future W. Todd Groce THE CIVIL WAR, RECONSTRUCTION AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF RACISM 4.Remembering the Civil War David B. Allison 5.Memorializing the Confederate Past at Gettysburg During the Civil Rights and Cold War Era Jill Ogline Titus 6.Tributes to the Past, Present, and Future: World War I-Era Confederate Memorialization in Virginia Thomas R. Seabrook 7.Don
t Call Them Memorials Julian C. Chambliss 8.A Lost Cause in the Bluegrass: Two Confederate Monuments in Lexington, Kentucky Stuart W. Sanders 9.Challenging Historical Remembrance, Myth, and Identity: The Confederate Monuments Debate F. Sheffield Hale 10.Empty Pedestals: What should be done with Civic Monuments to the Confederacy and its Leaders? Civil War Times NATIVE PEOPLES AND WHITE-WASHED HISTORY 11.From Columbus to Serra and Beyond David B. Allison 12.Native Voices at Little Bighorn National Monument Gerard Baker 13.Should the Statue of Theodore Roosevelt Outside the American Museum of Natural History Be Removed?: A Possible Compromise William S. Walker IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE RATIONAL AND SYMPATHETIC MINDS 14. Group Behavior, Self-examination and Clearing the Air around Controversial Issues David B. Allison 15. Confederate Memorials: Choosing Futures for Our Past, A Veteran
s Perspective George McDaniel 16. Speech upon the Removal of Confederate Statues from New Orleans, May 19, 2017 Mitch Landrieu 17. A Reflection of Us: The Simpsons and Heroes of the Past Jose Zuniga COMMUNITY RESPONSIVENESS AND HISTORICAL RE-CONTEXTUALIZATION 18.
The Struggle to Overcome the Negatives of the Past
: Germany
s Vergangenheitsbewältigung and South Africäs Truth and Reconciliation Program, David B. Allison 19.
We as Citizens.
: Approaches to Memorialization by Sites of Conscience around the World Linda Norris 20. Listening and Responding to Community: A Long View David B. Allison 21. Confederate Statues at the University of Texas at Austin Ben Wright 22. Honoring El Movimiento: the Chicano Movement in Colorado JJ Lonsinger Rutherford 23. Not What's Broken; What's Healed: Women in El Barrio and the Healing Power of Community Vanessa Cuervo Forero 24. Telling the Whole Story: Education and Interpretation in Support of #1 in Civil Rights: The African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis Elizabeth Pickard 25. Project Say Something
s Whose Monument Project: Not Tearing Down History, But Building Up Hope Brian Murphy CONCLUSION Bibliography Index About the Editor and Contributors