Since last events in Charlottesville, major news outlets have sought the expertise of Professor Kirk Savage on the history of civil war statues and removal of Confederate monuments. It is two decades since his book Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America provided the first sustained investigation of monument building as a process of national and racial definition, and the histories it revealed remain as relevant as ever.
Stories for which Kirk' expertise has been sought include:
Colin McEnroe show. WNPR, Hartford, CT (Podcast): Why Do We Commemorate And Who Does It Serve?
September 06, 2017
Hyperallergic: When Should the Removal of Confederate Monuments Stop?
September 06, 2017
Artnet: Tear Down the Confederate Monuments—But What Next? 12 Art Historians and Scholars on the Way Forward
August 23, 2017
Pittsburgh Citty Paper: It’s high time to conclude a long-unresolved debate over Oakland’s Stephen Foster statue
August 23, 2017
Boston Globe: Stunned historians wrestle with calls to remove Confederate statues
August 21, 2017
New York Times: Discovering the Limitations of Statues
August 18, 2017
Washington Post: Why those Confederate soldier statues look a lot like their Union counterparts
August 18, 2017
Pittsburgh Post Gazette: What to do with a Stephen Foster statue with a black man at his feet?
August 18, 2017
NPR: Why One Kentucky Town Wants To Keep Its Confederate Monument
August 18, 2017
The Incline: Where you can find all of Pennsylvania’s Confederate monuments
August 17, 2017
Talk Poverty: A Confederate Monuments Expert Explains How We Memorialized White Supremacy
August 17, 2017
89.3 WFPL: Is There a Place for Confederate Monuments in 21st Century America?
August 16, 2017
Vice News (HBO): The South rose... everywhere
August 15, 2017