Overview

Nine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New Orleans and Chapel Hill. The headlines keep coming, and the debate rolls on. How should we contend with our troubled history as a nation? What is the best way forward? This first book in UGA Press’s History in the Headlines series offers a rich discussion between four leading scholars who have studied the history of Confederate memory and memorialization. Through this dialogue, we see how historians explore contentious topics and provide historical context for students and the broader public. Confederate Statues and Memorialization artfully engages the past and its influence on present racial and social tensions in an accessible format for students and interested general readers. Following the conversation, the book includes a “Top Ten” set of essays and articles that everyone should read to flesh out their understanding of this contentious, sometimes violent topic. The book closes with an extended list of recommended reading, offering readers specific suggestions for pursuing other voices and points of view.

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"With its focus on timely controversies and their historical roots, Confederate Statues and Memorialization will occupy a unique niche in the academic publishing world.--Anne Marshall ""author of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State """

"With its focus on timely controversies and their historical roots, Confederate Statues and Memorialization will occupy a unique niche in the academic publishing world.--Anne Marshall ""author of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State"""

With its focus on timely controversies and their historical roots, Confederate Statues and Memorialization will occupy a unique niche in the academic publishing world.--Anne Marshall author of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State

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Catherine Clinton is the Douglas Southall Freeman Visiting Professor of History at the University of Richmond. She is the author of several books, including Tara Revisited. Jim Downs is an associate professor of history at Connecticut College and author of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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