Research Catalog

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

Title: Tearing down the lost cause : the removal of New Orleans's Confederate statues / James Gill and Howard Hunter.
Author: Gill, James
Publication: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFD 21-3262	Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Hunter, Howard (G. Howard)

Description

viii, 225 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm

Summary

"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 the city's Confederate statues. On the eve of the Civil War, New Orleans was far more cosmopolitan than Southern, with its sizable population of immigrants, Northern-born businessmen, and white and Black Creoles. Ambivalent about secession and war, the city bore divided loyalties between the Confederacy and the Union. However, by 1880 New Orleans rivaled Richmond as a bastion of the Lost Cause. After Appomattox, a significant number of Confederate veterans moved into the city giving elites the backing to form a Confederate civic culture. While it's fair to say that the three Confederate monuments and the white supremacist Liberty Monument all came out of this dangerous nostalgia, the authors argue that each monument embodies its own story and mirrors the city and the times. The Lee monument expressed the bereavement of veterans and a desire to reconcile with the North, though strictly on their own terms. The Davis monument articulated the will of the Ladies Confederate Memorial Association to solidify the Lost Cause and Southern patriotism. The Beauregard Monument honored a local hero, but also symbolized the waning of French New Orleans and rising Americanization. The Liberty Monument, throughout its history, represented white supremacy and the cruel hypocrisy of celebrating a past that never existed. While the book is a narrative of the rise and fall of the four monuments, it is also about a city engaging history. Gill and Hunter contextualize these statues rather than polarize, interviewing people who are on both sides including citizens, academics, public intellectuals, and former mayor Mitch Landrieu. Using the statues as a lens, the authors construct a compelling narrative that provides a larger cultural history of the city"--

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFD 21-3262

ISBN

9781496833327
1496833325

LCCN

2020053353

OCLC

1224512764

Author

Gill, James, author.

Title

Tearing down the lost cause : the removal of New Orleans's Confederate statues / James Gill and Howard Hunter.

Publisher

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

EXAMINES NEW ORLEAN'S COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP TO THE CONFEDERACY, PRE-AND POST-CIVIL WAR.

Chronological Term

1861-2099

Added Author

Hunter, Howard (G. Howard), author.

Other Form:

Online version: Gill, James, Tearing down the lost cause Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021. 9781496833525 (DLC) 2020053354

Research Call Number

JFD 21-3262

View in Legacy Catalog