• Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2017) [ebook in library]
• Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change, Columbia University Press, 1999 [ebook in library]
The following are available via the university library ejournals:
Ater, Renée, ‘Slavery and Its Memory in Public Monuments’, American Art , Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 2010), pp. 20-23. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/652738
Brophy, Alfred L., ‘CONFEDERATE MEMORY AND MONUMENTS: OF JUDICIAL OPINIONS, STATUTES AND BUILDINGS’, Journal of International Affairs , FALL/WINTER 2006, Vol. 60, No. 1, Historical Reconciliation (FALL/WINTER 2006), pp. 125-139. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.com/stable/24358016
Dresser, Madge, ‘Set in Stone? Statues and Slavery in London’, History Workshop Journal, No. 64 (Autumn, 2007), pp. 162-199
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25472939
Çelik, Zeynep, ‘Colonial statues and their afterlives’, The Journal of North African Studies, 2019
Goldman, Lawrence, ‘We have been here before: ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ in historical context’, in Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors, ed by Jill Pellew and Lawrence Goldman (University of London Press; Institute of Historical Research) Stable URL:http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctv512v68.17
Labode, Modupe and Kevin M. Levin, ‘RECONSIDERATION of Memorials and Monuments’, History News, Vol. 71, No. 4 (AUTUMN 2016), pp. 7-11
Stable URL:https://www.jstor.org/stable/44605954
Marschall, Sabine, ‘Targeting Statues: Monument “Vandalism” as an Expression of Sociopolitical Protest in South Africa’, African Studies Review, vol. 60, no. 3 (2017), pp. 203-219. Doi: 10.1017/asr.2017.56
Rosoux, Valerie and Laurence van Ypersele, ‘The Belgian national past: Between commemoration and silence’, Memory Studies, vol 5, no. 1 (2011), pp. 45-57.
Roberts, Blain and Ethan J. Kytle, ‘Looking the Thing in the Face: Slavery, Race, and the Commemorative Landscape in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865–2010’, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 78, No. 3 (AUGUST 2012), pp. 639-684
Weinman, Michael, ‘Learning from Charlottesville Before and After “Unite the Right”
Misrepresentation, Misrecognition, and Statue Politics’, in #Charlottesville: White Supremacy, Populism, and Resistance, ed by Christopher Howard-Woods, Colin Laidley and Maryam Omidi (OR Books)
Stable URL:http://www.jstor.com/stable/j.ctv62hg0j.10
Other articles (most recent first):
Evans, Richard J., ‘The History Wars’ (New Statesman, 17 June 2020) <https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/06/history-wars>
BBC website (11 June 2020). ‘Edinburgh’s Dundas statue to be dedicated to slavery victims’
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-52997858>
Keating, David, ‘How Belgium is being forced to confront the bloody legacy of King Leopold II’ (New Statesman, 9 June 2020) <https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2020/06/belgium-king-leopold-congo-statue-atrocities-belgian-colonialism>
McCool, Mary, ‘The Scottish streets and monuments built on the slave trade’, (BBC website, 9 June 2020) <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-52978121>
Otele, Olivette, ‘These anti-racism protests show it’s time for Britain to grapple with its difficult history’ (9 June 2020) <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/09/protests-british-history>
Pronczuk, Monika and Mihir Zaveri, ‘Statue of Leopold II, Belgian King Who Brutalized Congo, Is Removed in Antwerp’, (NYTimes, 9 June 2020). <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/world/europe/king-leopold-statue-antwerp.html>
Olusoga, David, ‘The toppling of Edward Colston’s statue is not an attack on history. It is history’, The Guardian, 8 June 2020 <https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/edward-colston-statue-history-slave-trader-bristol-protest>
Woods, Hannah Rose, ‘The destruction of Edward Colston’s statue is an act of living history’ (New Statesman, 8 June 2020 <https://www.newstatesman.com/international/places/2020/06/destruction-edward-colston-s-statue-act-living-history>
Farrer, Martin, ‘Who was Edward Colston and why was his Bristol statue toppled?’ (The Guardian, 8 June 2020) <https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/08/who-was-edward-colston-and-why-was-his-bristol-statue-toppled-slave-trader-black-lives-matter-protests?>
Katharine Hay, ‘Edinburgh Professor renews call to reword history on a statue memorialising man who prolonged the slave trade’ (Edinburgh Evening News, 6 June 2020) <https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/people/edinburgh-professor-renews-call-reword-history-statue-memorialising-man-who-prolonged-slave-trade-2876774>
Wortham, Jenna, ‘A “Glorious Poetic Rage” This time is different. Here’s why’. (NY Times, 5 June 2020) <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/sunday-review/black-lives-matter-protests-floyd.html>
Amit Chaudhuri, ‘The Real Meaning of Rhodes must Fall’ (The Guardian, 16 March 2016)
<https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/16/the-real-meaning-of-rhodes-must-fall>
*A further reading list on monuments by scholars of colour, prepared by Dr Sarah Arens, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Modern Languages, is available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15oerzW6OOXxms6F2HEingKjyc893Me2-8Db5Y1SfgRY/edit?usp=sharing