Historians on the Confederate Monument Debate: AHA Resources

This resource is part of the AHA’s bibliography on Historians on the Confederate Monument Debate. 

The Future of the African American Past (August 2017)

American Historical Association, Letter of Support for National Monument to Reconsruction (November 16, 2016)

James Grossman, “Whose Memory? Whose Monuments? History, Commemoration, and the Struggle for an Ethical Past,” Perspectives on History (February 1, 2016)

Carol Anderson, “K-12 Educators Workshop: The Long Civil Rights Movement,” AHA Annual Meeting (January 9, 2016)

Sarah Fenton, “AHA Plenary: “The Confederacy, Its Symbols, and the Politics of Public Culture,” AHA Today (January 9, 2016)

Stephanie Kingsley, “Plotting Freedom: Data Mapping Leads to New Visions of Reconstruction,” Perspectives on History (October 1, 2015)

Seth Denbo, “All History Is Local: Debating the Fate of a Confederate Soldier Statue in Maryland,” AHA Today (July 27, 2015)

Ernie Price, “Footsteps to Freedom: Rethinking the Legacy of Appomattox,” AHA Today (May 26, 2015)

James Grossman, “Historical Malpractice and the Writing of Textbooks,” Perspectives on History (December 1, 2010)