4.9.19: Defeated, heroized, dismantled- Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument

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    by DR. SARAH BEETHAM and DR. BETH HARRIS

    Antonin Mercié, Robert E. Lee Monument, 1890, bronze (removed from Monument Avenue, Richmond Virginia, September 9, 2021) This video was recorded in July 2021. speakers: Dr. Sarah Beetham and Dr. Beth Harris

    Additional resources

    Kirk Savage, Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape (University of California Press, 2011)

    Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, new ed. (Princeton University Press, 2018)

    Kevin M. Levin, “Richmond’s Confederate Monuments Were Used to Sell a Segregated Neighborhood,” The Atlantic (Jun 11, 2020)

    This page titled 4.9.19: Defeated, heroized, dismantled- Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument was last modified on Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:32:22 GMT and is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Dr. Sarah Beetham and Dr. Beth Harris, "Defeated, heroized, dismantled: Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Monument," in Smarthistory, September 10, 2021, accessed November 1, 2022, https://smarthistory.org/lee-monument-richmond/..