![]() ![]() Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. The work discusses many pro and anti memorial groups that I was unaware of. Cox is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Cox Interesting read of the source of many of the Confederate statues and monuments throughout the areas of the country once defined as the Confederate States of America. The book traces the changing meaning of Confederate monuments across the South between the Civil War and today, utilizing multiple perspectives and drawing on pertinent case studies. Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index. Cox's short volume offers a clear-eyed and thoughtful guide to a significant element in the polarized and potent history of Confederate memory. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning". In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. ![]() ![]() These conflicts have raged for well over a century-but they've never been as intense as they are today. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. Her most recent book No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the. "When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Cox - is an award-winning historian and Professor of History at the. ![]()
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