Restricted Resources for/about moving/taking down Monuments.

[jgoodguy]

Introducing #NOLASyllabus
In chat for now because the time span is so great. The connection to the Civil War is indirect

I am calling this little project #NOLASyllabus and the goal is to collect as wide a range of resources to help teachers, students, and the general public better understand the history and memory of Confederate monuments in New Orleans and beyond as well as the broader debate.

#NOLASyllabus

HISTORICAL OVERVIEWS

• Steven Hahn, A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910 (2016).
• Brenda Wineapple, Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877 (2013).

OP-EDS AND EDITORIALS

• Felicia Bevel, "**** is a Global Export of the Confederate South, 32 May 2017, Quartz.
• Frank Bruni, "Mitch Landrieu Reminds Us that Eloquence Still Exists," 23 May 2017, The New York Times.
• Jelani Cobb, "The Battle Over Confederate Monuments in New Orleans," 12 May 2017, The New Yorker.
• Kevin M. Levin, "Robert E. Lee Topples From His Pedestal," 19 May 2017, The Atlantic.
• Wynton Marsalis, "Why New Orleans Should Take Down Robert E. Lee's Statue," 17 May 2017, The Times-Picayune.
• Janell Ross, "'They Were Not Patriots': New Orleans Removes Monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee," 19 May 2017, The Washington Post.
• Aviva Shen, "The History Behind New Orleans' Long Fight To Remove Its Confederate Monuments," 13 March 2017, Think Progress.

READINGS ON THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION

• Gregory P. Downs, After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Civil War (2015).
• Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979)
• James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (1988)
• Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (1988)
• Ira Berlin, Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War (1992)
• David Blight, Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory (2001)
• Charles Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War(2001)
• Douglas Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name (2008)
• Carole Emberton, Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, & American South after Civil War (2009)
• Stephanie McCurry, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (2010)
• Doug Egerton, The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era(2013)
• Mark W. Summers, The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction (2014).

PUBLIC OFFICIALS

• Mitch Landrieu Address at Liberty Place Monument, April 24, 2017, YouTube.
• Mitch Landrieu Speech on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans," 18 May 2015, The Atlantic.
• Michael Signer, "I'm A Progressive Mayor. Here's Why I Voted No On Removing My City's Monument," 24 May 2017, The Washington Post.

INTERVIEWS
[*]with Bryan Stevenson, 24 May 2017, Vox.

ACROSS THE COUNTRY

• Jamelle Bouie, "Why Richard Spencer Matters," 23 May 2017, Slate. (Charlottesville, Va)
• Kevin M. Levin, "What Richmond Has Gotten Right About Its Confederate History," 18 May 2017, Smithsonian Magazine.

COMMUNITY FORUMS

• "The Struggle to Remove **** Monuments in New Orleans: Community Forum #2," Uploaded to YouTube, 13 October 2015.
• "The Struggle to Remove **** Monuments in New Orleans: Community Forum #3," Uploaded to YouTube, 12 October 2015.
• "The Unmasking: Race and Reality in Richmond, Part 2," Uploaded to YouTube on 17 January 2017

DOCUMENTARIES

• Southern Discomfort, uploaded to YouTube, 4 April 2017.

READINGS ON MONUMENTS (Civil War)

• Erika Doss, Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America (2010).
• William B. Lees and Frederick P. Gaske, Recalling Deeds Immortal: Florida Monuments to the Civil War(2014).
• Sanford Levinson, Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (1998).
• Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (1997).

READINGS ON CIVIL WAR MEMORY

• Robert J. Cook, Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961-1965 (2007).
• Gary W. Gallagher, Causes Won, Lost & Forgotten: How Hollywood And Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War (2008).
• Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (1998)
• Caroline E. Janney, Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation (2013).
• Nina Silber, The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 (1993).

READINGS ON THE MYTH OF THE LOST CAUSE

• Gaines M. Foster, Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South (1987).
• Gary W. Gallagher and Alan T. Nolan eds., The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (2000).
• Charles R. Wilson, Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 (1980).

READINGS ON THE CONFEDERATE FLAG

• George Schedler, Racist Symbols and Reparations: Philosophical Reflections on Vestiges of the American Civil War (1998)
• Robert Bonner, Colors and Blood: Flag Passions of the Confederate South (2002)
• K. Michael Prince, Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! South Carolina and the Confederate Flag (2004)
• John Coski, The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem (2005)

LECTURES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS

• Thomas Brown, "Overview of Civil War Monuments," American Civil War Museum, 25 February 2017, C-SPAN.
• Christy Coleman, "Controversy Over Civil War Monuments and Memorials," American Civil War Museum," 25 February 2017, C-SPAN.
• Ervin Jordan, "Controversy Over Robert E. Lee Monuments," American Civil War Museum, 25 February 2017, C-SPAN.
• James Loewen, "Confederate Monuments and Memorials," American Civil War Museum, 25 February 2017, C-SPAN.
• Cynthia Mills, "Civil War Monuments," Smithsonian Institution, 19 July 2012, YouTube.
• Panel Discussion on Civil War Monuments, American Civil War Museum, 25 February 2017, C-SPAN.
• Timothy Sedore, "Context of Civil War Monuments," American Civil War Museum, 25 February 2017, C-SPAN

SHORT EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS

• Civil War Trust, "The Civil War in Four Minutes: Monuments," Uploaded to YouTube on 7 June 2013.
• Florida Humanities, "Florida in the Civil War: Monuments and Memories," Uploaded to YouTube on 7 November 2016.

MONUMENT DEDICATION ADDRESSES

• Robert Edward Lee. An address delivered at the dedication of the monument to General Robert Edward Lee at Richmond, Virginia, May 29, 1890
• A Souvenir Book of the Jefferson Davis Memorial Association and the Unveiling of the Monument, Richmond, Virginia, June 3, 1907.