Acknowledgments Introduction 1. A Monument to a Deceased Project 2. Covering Ground 3. The Mechanic Monster 4. Inventing Public Space 5. The Monument Transformed 6. The Conscience of the Nation 7. An End to War, an End to Monuments? Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
Kirk Savage is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America.
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