Controversial Monuments and Memorials

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.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSLIST OF FIGURESLIST OF TERMSPREFACEINTRODUCTIONCharlottesville, Memory and How to Read this BookPart I: MUSEUMS, CONTROVERSY AND THE PASTChapterHistory as Legend and Myth as Fact, David B. AllisonConfronting Confederate Monuments in the Twenty-First Century, Modupe LabodeHistory, Memory, and the Struggle for the Future, W. Todd Groce“No Sooner Was It Over, than the Memory Made It Nobler”, Bob BeattyPart II: THE CIVIL WAR, RECONSTRUCTION AND THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF RACISMChapter Remembering the Civil War, David B. AllisonMemorializing the Confederate Past at Gettysburg During the Civil Rights and Cold War Era, Jill Ogline TitusTributes to the Past, Present, and Future: World War I-Era Confederate Memorialization in Virginia, Edited for Revised Edition, Thomas R. SeabrookDon’t Call Them Memorials, Julian C. ChamblissA Lost Cause in the Bluegrass: Two Confederate Monuments in Lexington, Kentucky,Stuart W. SandersChallenging Historical Remembrance, Myth, and Identity: The Confederate Monuments Debate, Edited for Revised Edition, F. Sheffield HaleEmpty Pedestals: What should be done with Civic Monuments to the Confederacy and its Leaders?, Civil War TimesPart III: NATIVE PEOPLES AND WHITE-WASHED HISTORYChapter From Columbus to Serra and Beyond, David B. AllisonNative Voices at Little Bighorn National Monument, Gerard BakerThe Removal of James Earle Fraser’s Statue of Theodore Roosevelt from the American Museum of Natural History, William S. WalkerPart IV: IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE RATIONAL AND SYMPATHETIC MINDS Chapter15. Group Behavior, Self-examination and Clearing the Air around Controversial Issues,David B. Allison16. Confederate Memorials: Choosing Futures for Our Past, A Veteran’s Perspective,George McDaniel17. Speech upon the Removal of Confederate Statues from New Orleans, May 19, 2017,Mitch Landrieu18. A Reflection of Us: The Simpsons and Heroes of the Past, Edited for Revised Edition, Jose ZunigaPart V: COMMUNITY RESPONSIVENESS AND HISTORICAL RE-CONTEXTUALIZATIONChapter19. “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 Norris21. Monumental Relationships: International Monument Culture and the United States in the Early 21st Century, Laura A. Macaluso22. Listening and Responding to Community: A Long View, David B. Allison23. Confederate Statues at the University of Texas at Austin, Ben Wright24. Honoring El Movimiento: the Chicano Movement in Colorado,JJ Lonsinger Rutherford25. Not What's Broken; What's Healed: Women in El Barrio and the Healing Power of Community, Vanessa Cuervo Forero26. Telling the Whole Story: Education and Interpretation in Support of #1 in Civil Rights: The African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, Elizabeth Pickard27. Project Say Something’s Whose Monument Project: Not Tearing Down History, But Building Up Hope, Brian Murphy28. Changing of the Guard: Curating a New Conversation Around Colorado’s Toppled Civil War Monument, Jason L. HansonCONCLUSIONAppendixBibliographyIndexAbout the Editor and Contributors

It's exciting to imagine the possible audiences and uses for this very readable book. With its multiple perspectives; local, national, and international scope; and blend of primary and secondary sources, it might interest students, instructors, practitioners, scholars, members of the general public, or politicians. The authors address this timely topic with historical knowledge and an understanding of reparative justice, explaining how monuments have often contributed to systemic racism and how they can be removed, replaced, or contextualized without erasing difficult histories.