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Civil War Monuments (Journal of the Civil War Era (“Confederate Monuments:…
Civil War Monuments
Journal of the Civil War Era
“Confederate Monuments: What To Do?” to analyze the problem of memorialization, especially of the Confederacy, and what historians can do to help the nation move forward.
The major conflicts of the monuments came from the aftermath of the murders of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina
Major conflict ensued after the removal of the statue of Lee in New Orleans
The monuments are deeply connected to racial tensions
Discusses a panel that was assembled to discuss the reasons to keep or remove civil war monuments
It was an open discussion panel, with this main question being the focus, “What do the monuments say to those who want to keep them?”
Some say the monuments are important in the use of telling the history of the Civil War
Some said that maintaining the monuments memorialized the place and power of white supremacy in American society
Many of the monuments lack direct relation to historical fact, ie. the lost cause
Some suggest adding more monuments to counteract those confederate one, assumably ones which support the union cause
Historians play a crucial role in deciding what to do with monuments
American Historical Association
AHA is open and welcomes the discussion of the issue of confederate mouments
The monuments open communities up to historical discussions, which were no present at the time when the monuments were erected
They quote a Trump tweet
Knowledge of facts from the time when these monuments were put up helps us understand why they were put up in the first place.
"History comprises both facts and interpretations of those facts. To remove a monument, or to change the name of a school or street, is not to erase history, but rather to alter or call attention to a previous interpretation of history."
"Memorials to the
Confederacy were intended, in part, to obscure the terrorism required to overthrow Reconstruction, and to intimidate African Americans politically and isolate them from the mainstream of public life"
The events of Charlottesville embrace the initial goals of many of the monuments, which was to intimidate black people
Are in a sense saying that because the monuments are relics of the times in which they were put up, the historical context of them needs to be respected, and in a sense preserved, not destroyed.
Says it's important to consider the options of removal of these monuments