Our friends over at the Journal of Civil War History have posted another great Zoom program. This one is on Civil War monuments. Professor Thomas Brown shows some of the monuments erected in the century after the war to look at influences and meanings of these works of public art and mythmaking. Kate Masur and Greg Downs interview him about his years of research into this topic. I read Civil War Canons by Brown a few years ago and loved it. This talk draws on that book and his new Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America. It is really very good. Here is the description from the JCWE:
Dr. Thomas J. Brown: Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America
The many Civil War monuments that dot the American landscape continue to incite controversy. Dr. Brown will explain who built these monuments and why; what Civil War monuments tell us about American culture; and how the monuments’ meanings have changed over time.
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