History of Art and Architecture

National press interviews Kirk Savage on confederate monuments

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