Tearing down the lost cause : the removal of New Orleans's Confederate statues /

In Tearing Down the Lost Cause: The Removal of New Orleans's Confederate Statues James Gill and Howard Hunter examine New Orleans's complicated relationship with the history of the Confederacy pre- and post-Civil War. The authors open and close their manuscript with the dramatic removal of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Gill, James (Author), Hunter, Howard (G. Howard) (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Subjects:	Statues > Louisiana > New Orleans. Soldiers' monuments > Southern States. Monuments > Political aspects > Southern States > History > 21st century. Monuments > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 21st century. Collective memory > Political aspects > Southern States > History > 21st century. Memorialization > Political aspects > Southern States > History > 21st century. Racism in art > Political aspects > Southern States > History > 21st century. Community activists > Southern States > History > 21st century. Monuments > United States > Public opinion. New Orleans (La.) > History. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Monuments.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Robert E. Lee
Chapter 2: New Orleans Before the Civil War
Chapter 3: New Orleans in the Civil War
Chapter 4: Reconstruction
Chapter 5: New Orleans and Jim Crow
Chapter 6: The formidable Mrs. Behan
Chapter 7: P. G. T. Beauregard and the waning of Creole New Orleans
Chapter 8
Moonlight and magnolias
Chapter 9: The second battle of Liberty Place
Chapter 10: Nuisance ordinance
Chapter 11: Pros and cons
Chapter 12: Legal challenge denied
Chapter 13: Resolving a middle ground
Chapter 14: Where to put them?
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Mayor Landrieu, May 19, 2017
Appendix 2: Interview with Mitch Landrieu
Notes
Index.