Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, New Edition

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.

• Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
• Introduction to Public History (American Association for State and Local History)
• Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
• The Deliverance
• Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 20th Anniversary Edition
• Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum
• Interpreting LGBT History at Museums and Historic Sites (Interpreting History)
• Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (First Peoples, New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
• Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture (New Perspectives on the History of the South)
• From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement (Public History in Historical Perspective)