Download or read book Standing Soldiers Kneeling Slaves written by Kirk Savage and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supremacy 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.
Download or read book Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America written by Thomas J. Brown and published by Civil War America. This book was released on 2019 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This ... assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a national embrace of military values. Americans' wariness of standing armies limited construction of war memorials in the early republic, ... and continued to influence commemoration after the Civil War. ... distrust of standing armies gave way to broader enthusiasm for soldiers in the Gilded Age. Some important projects challenged the trend, but many Civil War monuments proposed new norms of discipline and vigor that lifted veterans to a favored political status and modeled racial and class hierarchies. A half century of Civil War commemoration reshaped remembrance of the American Revolution and guided American responses to World War I"--
Download or read book Honoring Their Memory written by Lauren R. Pacini and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the dedication of the Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Honoring their Memory tells the story of the struggles and achievements experienced in the creation of the Monument, designed and constructed by Architect, Sculptor, and Civil War Veteran Levi T. Scofield to honor more than 9,000 from Cuyahoga County who served in the War of the Rebellion. Through contemporary photography and the inclusion of vintage text, the story is told in the context of the architect's life and his broader body of work, as seen through ten extant projects.
Download or read book War and Remembrance written by Thomas H. Conner and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell. The land he died to save vies with the one which gave him birth in paying tribute to his memory, and the kindly hands which so often come to spread flowers upon his earthly coverlet express in their gentle task a personal affection."—General John J. Pershing To remember and honor the memory of the American soldiers who fought and died in foreign wars during the past hundred years, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was established. Since the agency was founded in 1923, its sole purpose has been to commemorate the soldiers' service and the causes for which their lives were given. The twenty-five overseas cemeteries honoring 139,000 combat dead and the memorials honoring the 60,314 fallen soldiers with no known graves are among the most beautiful and meticulously maintained shrines in the world. In the first comprehensive study of the ABMC, Thomas H. Conner traces how the agency came to be created by Congress in the aftermath of World War I, how the cemeteries and monuments the agency built were designed and their locations chosen, and how the commemorative sites have become important "outposts of remembrance" on foreign soil. War and Remembrance powerfully demonstrates that these monuments—living sites that embody the role Americans played in the defense of freedom far from their own shores—assist in understanding the interconnections of memory and history and serve as an inspiration to later generations.
Download or read book Dedication of the Soldiers Monument at Dorchester written by Dorchester (Boston, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soldiers Monument Market Square Germantown written by Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.). Soldiers Monument Memorial Tablets Committee and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monument Wars written by Kirk Savage and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Civil War Canon written by Thomas J. Brown and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expansive history of South Carolina's commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas J. Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and economic positions. By looking at prominent sites such as Fort Sumter, Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery, and the South Carolina statehouse, Brown reveals a dynamic pattern of contestation and change. He highlights transformations of gender norms and establishes a fresh perspective on race in Civil War remembrance by emphasizing the fluidity of racial identity within the politics of white supremacy. Despite the conservative ideology that connects these sites, Brown argues that the Confederate canon of memory has adapted to address varied challenges of modernity from the war's end to the present, when enthusiasts turn to fantasy to renew a faded myth while children of the civil rights era look for a usable Confederate past. In surveying a rich, controversial, and sometimes even comical cultural landscape, Brown illuminates the workings of collective memory sustained by engagement with the particularity of place.
Download or read book Memorial Address at the Dedication of the Soldiers Monument Maple Grove Cemetary Randolph New York Classic Reprint written by James T. Edwards and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memorial Address at the Dedication of the Soldiers Monument, Maple Grove Cemetary, Randolph, New York Thucydides, writing of those who fell at Marathon, declared that the whole world is a mausoleum of those who die for the preservation of the liberties country. Though foul are the drops that oft distil On the field of warfare, blood like this For Liberty shed, so holy is, it would not stain the purest rill That sparkles among the bowers of bliss. Oh, if there be, on this earthly sphere, A boon, an offering Heaven holds dear, 'tis the last libation Liberty draws From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Special Report of the Soldiers Monument Association Containing an Account of the Dedicatory Exercises of the Soldiers Monument at Bridgeport August 17th 1876 Organized April 15 1861 written by Soldiers' Monument Association (Bridgeport, Conn.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers Monument Dedication at Tarrytown N Y October 19th 1894 written by Tarrytown (N.Y.). Monument Committee and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Soldiers Monument in Cambridge written by Cambridge (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of York Maine Successively Known as Bristol 1632 Agamenticus 1641 Gorgeana 1642 and York 1652 written by Charles Edward Banks and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of American Sculpture written by Lorado Taft and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorial Address at the Dedication of the Soldiers Monument Maple Grove Cemetary Randolph New York written by James Thomas Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exercises Held at the Dedication of the Soldiers Monument Memorial Day 1882 written by Easton (Mass. : Town) and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dedication of the Soldiers Monument North Haven Conn written by North Veteran Soldiers' Association and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pamphlet documents the dedication of a monument to honor the soldiers of the Civil War from North Haven, Connecticut. The monument still stands today, and this pamphlet provides important historical context for its creation and significance. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
