No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice

Karen L. Cox
University of North Carolina Press

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals.

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