Monument to a Black Man
Author | : Daniel James Kubiak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Daniel James Kubiak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
His skin was black;his heart, true blue.
Author | : Kirk Savage |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2018-07-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691184526 |
The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces—specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history took place amid struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments exposed the myth of a "united" people, and have only become more controversial with the passage of time.
Author | : Jesse Holland |
Publisher | : Lyons Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781493029686 |
Presents details about the role of blacks in the history of Washington, D.C., including in the creation of such historic sites as the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, and provides information on monuments dedicated to the contributions of African Americans.
Author | : Harold Holzer |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1616898291 |
The artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) is America's best-known sculptor of public monuments Monument Man is the first comprehensive biography of this fascinating figure and his illustrious career. Full of rich detail and beautiful archival photographs, Monument Man is a nuanced study of a preeminent artist whose evolution ran parallel to, and deeply influenced, the development of American sculpture, iconography, and historical memory. Monument Man was specially commissioned by Chesterwood / National Trust for Historic Preservation. The release will coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Chesterwood, his country home and studio, as a public site and with a major renovation of the Lincoln Memorial. The book includes a comprehensive geographical guide to French's public work.
Author | : William Greenleaf Eliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Fugitive slaves |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kevin M. Levin |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469653273 |
More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a rising backlash against African Americans' gains in civil rights and other realms. Levin also investigates the roles that African Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march, and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers, an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history.
Author | : Kirk Savage |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2011-07-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0520271335 |
Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century.
Author | : Craig Thompson Friend |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1107084202 |
Death and the American South is an edited collection of twelve never-before-published essays, featuring leading senior scholars as well as influential up-and-coming historians. The contributors use a variety of methodological approaches for their research and explore different parts of the South and varying themes in history.
Author | : Gisli Palsson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2016-09-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022631328X |
Prologue: a man of many worlds -- The island of St. Croix -- "A house negro"--"The mulatto Hans Jonathan" -- "Said to be the secretary" -- Among the sugar barons -- Copenhagen -- A child near the royal palace -- "He wanted to go to war" -- The general's widow v. the mulatto -- The verdict -- Iceland -- A free man -- Mountain guide -- Factor, farmer, father -- Farewell -- Descendants -- The Jonathan family -- The Eirikssons of New England -- Who stole whom? -- The lessons of history -- Epilogue: biographies
Author | : Karen L. Cox |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146966268X |
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals.