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"When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. 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. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface 2019 -- Preface -- Note on Sources and Evidence -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Journey into the Lost Cause -- 2. The Sacred Trust -- 3. The Rise of the UDC -- 4. The Monument Builders -- 5. Confederate Progressives -- 6. Combating "Wicked Falsehoods" -- 7. Confederate Motherhood -- 8. Vindication and Reconciliation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: People & Places -- 1 Persistence of Fiction: One Hundred Years of Tom Sawyer at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home -- 2 From "Lawrence County Negro" to National Hero: The Commemoration of Jesse Owens in Alabama -- 3 Saving "The Dump": Race and the Restoration of the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta -- 4 "A Tradition-Conscious Cotton City": (East) Tupelo, Mississippi, Birthplace of Elvis Presley -- Part Two: Race & Slavery -- 5 "History as Tourist Bait": Inventing Somerset Place State Historic Site, 1939–1969 -- 6 "Is It Okay to Talk about Slaves?" Segregating the Past in Historic Charleston -- 7 Selling the Civil Rights Movement through Black Political Empowerment in Selma, Alabama -- Part Three: War & Remembrance -- 8 "Challenging the Interest and Reverence of all Patriotic Americans": Preservation and the Yorktown National Battlefield -- 9 Calhoun County, Alabama: Confederate Iron Furnaces and the Remaking of History -- 10 A Monument to Many Souths: Tourists Experience Southern Distinctiveness at Stone Mountain -- Part Four: Landscape & Memory -- 11 Dead but Delightful: Tourism and Memory in New Orleans Cemeteries -- 12 Tourism, Landscape, and History in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park -- 13 Authenticity for Sale: The Everglades, Seminole Indians, and the Construction of a Pay-Per-View Culture -- Contributors -- Index

Preface -- Defining religion -- Historical background -- Philosophical phenomenology and the social sciences -- Stages in the phenomenological method -- The phenomenological method : a case study -- Myths and rituals -- Religious practitioners and art -- Scripture and morality -- The special case of belief -- The place of the phenomenology of religion in the current and future academic study of religion