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05360aam a2200565 i 4500 001 0A717DFC177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210917010313 008 201221s2021 msuaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020053353 020 $a 1496833325 020 $a 9781496833327 035 $a (OCoLC)1224512764 040 $a MsSM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-usu-- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E645 $b .G55 2021 100 1 $a Gill, James, $e author. 245 10 $a Tearing down the lost cause : $b the removal of New Orleans's Confederate statues / $c James Gill and Howard Hunter. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2021] 300 $a viii, 225 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a "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. 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Howard), $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Gill, James, $t Tearing down the lost cause $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021. $z 9781496833525 $w (DLC) 2020053354 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014144.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0A717DFC177D11EC850ADFAD22ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search