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Additional Resources
Books
A Passion for the Past: Creative Teaching of U.S. History, James A. Percoco, 1998, Heinemann. See Chapter Four, "If Statues Could Talk: Using Monuments to Teach."
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves, Kirk Savage, Princeton University Press, 1999.
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, David W. Blight, Belknap Press, 2001.
Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields, Edward T. Linenthal, 1993, University of Illinois Press.
Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies, Sanford Levinson, 1998, Duke University Press.
Myths in Stone: Religious Dimensions of Washington, D.C., Jeffrey F. Meyer, 2001, University of California Press.
Online Interview
Monuments and Memorials, interview with Michael Kimmelman, art critic, New York Times (audio file)
www.homepages.indiana.edu/120701/ text/conversations.html
Online Articles
"The Past in the Present: The Life of Memorials," Kirk Savage, in Harvard Design Magazine, Number 9, Fall 1999. PDF document available online at
www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/ hdm/back/9savage.pdf
"Preserving Monuments: A Study of Monuments and Memorials," Bradley McCallum.
http://yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/ units/1993/1/93.01.06.x.html
"Public Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture," Dennis R. Montagna, in CRM Online, Volume 18, No. 1. PDF document available online at
http://crm.cr.nps.gov/ issue.cfm?volume=18&number=01
"This land is our land of symbols," Betsa Marsh, in Travel, The Cincinnati Enquirer, August 25, 2002.
www.cincinnati.com/travel/ stories/082502_landmarks.html
"America Celebrates Its Past: The Hall of Fame of Great Americans," Sally Webster, in CRM Online, Volume 18, No. 1. PDF document available online at
http://crm.cr.nps.gov/ issue.cfm?volume=18&number=01
"SOS! Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?" Susan Nichols, in CRM Online, Volume 18, No. 1. PDF document available online at
http://crm.cr.nps.gov/ issue.cfm?volume=18&number=01
"Rocky Too: The Saga of an Outdoor Sculpture," Danielle Rice, in CRM Online, Volume 18, No. 1. PDF document available online at
http://crm.cr.nps.gov/ issue.cfm?volume=18&number=01
Mount Rushmore, The Film and More: American Monuments
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/rushmore/ sfeature/sf_monuments.html
"Mumbling Monuments," Michael J. Lewis, Commentary, February 2001.
www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1061/2_111/ 71068128/p1/article.jhtml? term=improbable%2Bmonuments
"Out of Minimalism, Monuments to Memory," Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times, January 13, 2002.
www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/
featured_articles/20020114monday.html
Battling Monuments
www.tomchalk.com/battling.html
Newspaper Articles Online
"Sitting at the feet of Lincoln," Lawrence L. Knutson, July 5, 2002, The Hannibal Courier Post.
www.hannibal.net/stories/ 070502/opi_0704020014.shtml
"Richmond, Virginia, blacks weary of their history being ignored," April 30, 2000, The Baltimore Sun.
http://detnews.com/2000/ nation/0004/30/a15-46184.htm
"Monuments and museums provoke an uneasy dialogue on slavery," May 24, 2002, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/
0502/26slavery.html?urac=n&urvf=10636363140570.898265296714428
"Courage Cast in Bronze"
http://www.sitins.com/020202.htm
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