Removing Lost Cause monuments is the first step in dismantling ...

Removing and challenging the symbols of the Lost Cause is an important step to dismantling white supremacy, but it cannot be the only step.

Toppling statues is a first step toward ending Confederate myths

“Monuments don't teach history,” says Adam Domby, a Civil War historian and author of the recently published book False Cause: Fraud, ...

How Removing Public Monuments Works - Science | HowStuffWorks

The decision of whether or not to remove a public monument is really a question of what public monuments represent. Are they bygone products of a distant time ...

The Lost Cause and Confederate memory - Smarthistory

In September 2021, it too was removed from its place of honor on Monument Avenue and shipped to a warehouse. Its pedestal, which became a canvas for projected ...

Truth: Remarks on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New ...

History cannot be changed. It cannot be moved like a statue. What is done is done. The Civil War is over, and the Confederacy lost and we are ...

Why Confederate monuments are coming down now | Stanford Report

As people across the United States confront the nation's legacy of slavery and systemic racism, monuments and memorials honoring the ...

Canceling the Confederacy: The Dismantling of One of the Most ...

On July 1, 2020, I stood with hundreds of masked observers to witness history in my hometown of Richmond, Virginia: the official removal of the ...

Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy (Third edition)

Destroying these monuments will not erase the legacy of slavery. But abolishing these memorials is a first and essential step in combating ...

Lost Cause of the Confederacy - Wikipedia

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is an American pseudohistorical and historical negationist myth that claims the cause of the Confederate States during the ...

The Legal, Ethical, and Practical Dimensions of Removing ...

When evaluating the possibilities one may have for requesting the removal of a Confederate monument, the issues relating to property law, first ...

Confederate Monuments Syllabus - Kevin M. Levin

Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, “Removing Lost Cause Monuments is the First Step in Dismantling White Supremacy,” 19 June 2020, The Washington Post. Anne Twitty ...

Europe in 1989, America in 2020, and the Death of the Lost Cause

And many of us feel some awe in seeing, during these past few weeks, Confederate monuments in America likewise reduced to pieces, relics of the ...

Correcting History: Confederate Monuments, Rituals and the Lost ...

And a crowd of 5,000 people showed up to ogle at this body, this dead body. It became the spectacle for a few hours until the sheriff finally removed the body ...

Removing Confederate Monuments Through Historic Preservation ...

Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (2000); W. Fitzhugh Brundage, I've studied the history of Confederate memorials. Here's what to do with them ...

A US city took down its racist statues. Where do they go next?

Richmond, Virginia, removed likenesses of Confederate generals after 2020's protests. Now they're in a statue graveyard.

As Confederate statues disappear, will monuments to people of ...

What the group plans to build is still an open question, but it clearly will not be another statue honoring the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, ...

The Afterlife of Confederate Monuments

458, 459. (2020) (providing an overview of the Lost Cause); see also NICOLE MAURANTONIO,CIVIL WAR. MYTH AND MEMORY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ( ...

Cornerstone Contributions: Black Richmonders, the Lee Monument ...

At the intersection of the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as communities reassess who and what they memorialize, Confederate monuments ...

New Orleans begins controversial removal of Confederate monuments

It was the first of four scheduled relocations of Confederate memorials in New Orleans after years of heated public debate and legal battles.

Across the South, efforts to remove Confederate icons carry a price

Despite laws enacted to protect Confederate memorials in six states across the South, the movement to remove such monuments continues to ...