Memorials and Monuments of Oppression

Organizations:

Equal Justice Initiative
https://eji.org/videos/slavery-to-mass-incarceration

The Incluseum: https://incluseum.com/

International Coalition of Sites of Conscience: https://www.sitesofconscience.org/en/home/

 

Organizational Toolkits and Training:

Asset-Based Community Development Institute Resources
https://resources.depaul.edu/abcd-institute/resources/Pages/tool-kit.aspx

Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle Toolkit for Facilitated Discussions
https://createdequal.neh.gov/community/programming-guide/programming/toolkit-facilitated-discussions

From Memory to Action: A Toolkit for Memorialization in Post-Conflict Societies (International Coalition of Sites of Conscience):
https://www.sitesofconscience.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Memorialization-Toolkit-English.pdf

History Relevance Toolkit: https://www.historyrelevance.com/toolkit/

International Coalition of Sites of Conscience: Essential Engagement, Training & Coaching:
https://www.sitesofconscience.org/en/resources/best-practices/

Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change: Beloved Community Talks Let’s Bridge the Racial Divide: A Conversation Starter Toolkit
http://www.belovedcommunitytalks.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/TKC_Beloved-Community-Talks_Tool-Kit_v2.pdf

New York Times Lesson Plans for Japanese Internment
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/learning/lesson-plans/teaching-japanese-american-internment-using-primary-resources.html

Tomorrow Together: Higher Education Toolkit for 9/11 (George Washington University)
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55f991f1e4b03e33640110b0/t/5995a23317bffc70664c77a9/1502978616461/2017+911Day+Tomorrow+Together+Toolkit+%281%29.pdf

Wyoming State History Society Internment Camp Toolkit: https://www.wyohistory.org/education/toolkit/internment-camp-heart-mountain-1942-1945

 

Online Resources:

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Webinar: Grappling with Confederate Monuments and Iconography:
http://resource.aaslh.org/view/hot-topic-webinar-grappling-with-monuments-and-iconography/

American Historical Association: What Should We Do with Confederate Monuments
http://blog.historians.org/2017/10/what-should-we-do-with-confederate-monuments/

Center for the Future of Museums Blog: Are Museums the Rightful Home for Confederate Monuments?:
https://www.aam-us.org/2018/04/03/are-museums-the-rightful-home-for-confederate-monuments/

Charlottesville Statues: Legal History Research Guide (University of Virginia)
http://statues.law.virginia.edu/

Citizen Justice Initiative (University of Virginia)The Illusion of Progress: Charlottesville’s Roots in White Supremacy
http://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=a31f53ca6a54439087085d6c313758a5

Confederate Monuments are Coming Down Across the United States: Here’s a List (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/16/us/confederate-monuments-removed.html

Confederate Monuments Syllabus: A Crowdsourcing Project About Confederate Monuments and Civil War Memory: From #NOLA to #Cville
http://cwmemory.com/civilwarmemorysyllabus/

Congressional Research Service: Confederate Symbols: Relation to Federal Lands and Programs https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44959.pdf

Green, Hilary N. (University of Alabama) Race, Memory, Identity: http://hgreen.people.ua.edu/race-memory-identity.html

Handley-Cousins, Sarah. Falling Out of Love with the Civil War (Nursing Clio Blog)
https://nursingclio.org/2017/08/21/falling-out-of-love-with-the-civil-war/

Hayter, Julian Maxwell (University of Richmond) Confederate Monuments are about Maintaining White Supremacy (Washington Post, July 27, 2017)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/07/27/confederate-monuments-are-about-maintaining-white-supremacy/?utm_term=.9bcc69780224

History and Heritage, Memory and Memorialization: Confederate Monuments After Charlottesville: A Collection of Articles, Interviews, and Statements made by Historians
https://bergen.edu/wp-content/uploads/History-and-Heritage-Memory-and-Memorialization-Confederate-Monuments-After-Charlottesville.pdf

Labode, Modupe. Reconsideration of Memorials and Monuments, American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) (2016): http://blogs.aaslh.org/reconsideration-of-memorials-and-monuments/

Landrieu, Mitch. Speech on Removing Confederate Monuments from New Orleans
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/mayor_landrieu_speech_confeder.html

National Council on Public History: Confederate Memory Series
http://ncph.org/history-at-work/tag/confederate-memory-series/

National Council on Public History, Special Virtual Issue of the Public Historian. Monuments, Memory, Politics and our Publics: http://tph.ucpress.edu/content/special-virtual-issue-monuments-memory-politics-and-our-publics

60 Minutes: The History of Confederate Monuments
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-history-and-future-of-confederate-monuments/

Southern Poverty Law Center: Teaching Hard History
https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/tt_hard_history_american_slavery.pdf

University of North Carolina LibGuide: A Guide to Researching Campus Monuments and Buildings: "Silent Sam" Confederate Monument
http://guides.lib.unc.edu/campus-monuments/silent-sam

 

Additional Articles and Monographs:

Araujo, Ana Lucia, Editor. Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.

Politics of Memory: Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Begić, Sandina and Boriša Mraović. “Forsaken Monuments and Social Change: The Function of Socialist Monuments in the Post-Yugoslav Space” in Symbols that Bind, Symbols that Divide, 13 Peace Psychology Book Series, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-05464-3_2
Springer International Publishing Switzerland,  2014.

Bonnell, Jennifer and Roger I. Simon. “‘Difficult’ Exhibitions and Intimate Encounters.”
https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety/documents/volumes/bonnellsimon.pdf

Britzman, D. P. ‘If the Story Cannot End: Deferred Action, Ambivalence, and Difficult Knowledge,’ in Displays of Power: Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum. New York: NYU Press, 2000.

Coleman, Christy S. (American Civil War Museum). “The Civil War: Monuments and Memory.” https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4678140/christy-coleman-monuments-lecture

Edkins, J. “Concentration Camp Memorials and Museums: Dachau and the U.S.

Holocaust Memorial Museum” in Trauma and the Memory of Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003: 111-174.

Ellsworth, E. A. (2002) ‘The U.S. Holocaust Museum as a Scene of Pedagogical Address.” Symploke 10 (1-2) (2002): 13-31

Gueye, Abdoulaye and Johann Michel. A Stain on Our Pasts: Slavery and Memory. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2018.

Hamilton, Douglas, Kate Hodgson, and Joel Quirk, Editors. Slavery, Memory, and Identity: National Representations and Global Legacies. London, UK: Pickering & Chatto, 2012.

John P. Kretzmann and John L. McKnight, “Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets.” Published by the Center for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, 1993.

Levinson, Sanford. Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.

Linenthal, E. T. and T. Engelhardt, Editors. History Wars: the Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.

Newbury, D. ““Lest we forget:” Photography and the Presentation of History at the

Apartheid Museum, Gold Reef City, and the Hector Pieterson Museum, Soweto.” Visual

Communication, 4 (3) (2005): 259-295.

Simon, Roger I. “Museums, Civic Life, and the Educative Force of Remembrance,” The Journal of Museum Education. 31 (2) (2006): 113–22

“The Pedagogy of Remembrance and the Counter-Commemoration of the Columbus Quincentenary” in The Touch of the Past: Remembrance, Learning, and Ethics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005:14-31.

“The Terrible Gift: Museums and the Possibility of Hope Without Consolation,” Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship. 21 (3) (2006): 187-204

Simon, Roger I., Sharon Rosenberg, and Claudia Eppert, Editors. Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.

Titus, Jill. Fighting Civil Rights and the Cold War: Confederate Monuments at Gettysburg. ." History New: The Magazine of the American Association for State and Local History 71, no. 4 (2016). pp. 12-17. http://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=cw...

Upton, Dell. What Can and Can't Be Said: Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015

Walkowitz, Daniel J. and Lisa Maya Knauer, Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004).

Wyschogrod, E. (1998) An Ethics of Remembering: History, Hetereology, and the Nameless Others. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Savage, Kirk. Monument Wars: Washington D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Schwartz, Barry. The Social Context of Commemoration: A Study in Collective Memory. Social Forces. Vol. 61, No. 2 (December 1982): 374-402.
https://www.sfu.ca/cmns/courses/2012/487/1-Extra%20Readings/schwarts1982.pdf

Wagner-Pacifici, Robin and Barry Schwartz. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Commemorating a Difficult Past. The American Journal of Sociology. Volume 92, No. 2 (1991): 376-420.
http://www.sfu.ca/cmns/faculty/marontate_j/487/07-spring/Readings/WagnerPacificiSchwartz.pdf