Historians on the Confederate Monument Debate: AHA Member Interviews

This resource is part of the AHA’s bibliography on Historians on the Confederate Monument Debate. 

 

* Indicates former Council member

Interview with Sean Adams, “Daytona Beach Removes Confederate Markers,” Daytona Beach News-Journal (August 17, 2017)

Interview with Jennifer Allen, “What Our Monuments (Don’t) Teach Us About Remembering The Past,” NPR Code Switch (August 23, 2017)

Interview with David Atkinson, “Before Charlottesville, Purdue Got a White Nationalist Wake-Up Call,” Journal & Courier (August 14, 2017)

Interview with Ed Ayers, “The Shifting History of Confederate Monuments,” PBS NewsHour (August 14, 2017)

Interview with Ed Ayers, “Battle over Confederate Monuments Renewed after Charlottesville Violence,” NBC Nightly News (August 15, 2017)

Interview with Ed Ayers, “The History of White Supremacist Groups in the US,” NPR Here and Now (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Brian Balogh, “Shock and Outrage at University of Virginia after White Nationalist Rally,” NPR Here and Now (August 14, 2017)

Interview with Brian Balogh, “White Supremacists Don’t Just Arrive in Charlottesville. They’ve Always Been There,” Washington Post (August 14, 2017)

Interview with Brian Balogh, “Moral Leadership in the Wake Of Charlottesville,” Christian Science Monitor (August 15, 2017)

Interview with Brian Balogh, “‘Sadly, This Is Not New’: UVA Professor Reflects on History of Racism in America,” EdSurge (August 15, 2017)

Interview with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, “President Trump and the Alt-Right: A Test of Leadership,” NPR On Point (August 14, 2017)

Interview with Marty Blatt, “Reckoning with the Past: The Civil War and Its Role in Current Politics,” News@Northeastern (May 12, 2017)

Interview with *David Blight, “Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?,” The New Yorker (August 14, 2017)

Interview with *David Blight, “How the Cult of Robert E. Lee Was Born,” History (August 14, 2017)

Interview with *David Blight, “Stunned historians wrestle with calls to remove Confederate statues,” Boston Globe (August 21, 2017)

Interview with *David Blight, “Confronting Hate: Tolerance, Intolerance, and the Rise of White Nationalism,” WNPR Where We Live (August 22, 2017)

Interview with *David Blight, “Racism in America: Should the U.S. Get Rid of All Confederate Monuments?,” Newsweek (September 9, 2017)

Interview with David Blight, Gerald Horne, Minisha Sinha, and William Sturkey,  “For Historians, the Business off Studying Monuments Like UNC’s Silent Sam Takes a Toll,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (August 21, 2018)

Interview with Fitz Brundage, “Protesters Knock Down Confederate Statute on UNC Campus,” NPR Morning Edition (August 22,2018)

Interview with A’Lelia Bundles, “Trump Defiantly Defends White Nationalists, Provoking Fury,” MSNBC (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Nathan Connolly, “The Statue at the Center of Charlottesville’s Storm,” New York Times (August 13, 2017)

Interview with Nathan Connolly, “Terror in Charlottesville,” WYPR (August 14, 2017)

Interview with Nathan Connolly, “The History of White Supremacist Groups in the US,” NPR Here and Now (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Matt Drwenski, “Matt Drwenski at Houston City Council Public Forum 8/15/2017,” Houston City Council Public Forum (August 15, 2017)

Interview with Donna Gabaccia, “‘Say No to Hate’: Hundreds of Toronto Rally Decry Racial Violence in Charlottesville Attack,” CBC News (August 14, 2017)

Interview with Alexi Garrette, “Listen at 0:19:20,” BBC Outside Source (August 14, 2017)

Interview with Joy Hakim, “What Should Teachers Say about the Hate Speech Seen in Charlottesville?” USA Today (August 14, 2017)

Interview with David Hopkins, “Midland College Professor Explains Recent Racially Motivated Rallies from Historical Standpoint,” News West0 (August 18, 2017)

Interview with Ann Keating, “Confederate Monument Stands on Chicago’s South Side as Questions Swirl around the Country,” Chicago Tribune (August 17, 2017)

Interview with Ibram Kendi, “Washingtonians Process Violence And White Nationalism In Charlottesville, Va.,” The Kojo Nnamdi Show (August 14, 2017)

Interview with Ibram Kendi, “Panel Discuss Family Repudiates Son Over Racist Charlottes Ville Rally. #Virginia #Breaking,” CNN (August 16, 2017)

Interview with JoAnne Mancini, “There Has Always Been a Discomfort about the Statues,” Newstalk (August 18, 2017)

Interview with Glenna Matthews, “California Confronts Its Confederate Past as Monuments Are Abruptly Removed,” Los Angeles Times (August 16, 2017)

Mary Niall Mitchel, “A Tale of Two Cities: New Orleans and the Fight Over Confederate Monuments,” The History Channel (May 11, 2017)

Interview with David Nirenberg, “Why the Charlottesville Marchers Were Obsessed with Jews,” The Atlantic (August 15, 2017)

News coverage of Jenifer Parks, “Understanding Confederate Monuments: Crowd Hears from Montana Historians at Billings Library,” Billings Gazette (October 10, 2017)

Interview with Sara Patenaude, “Group Seeking to Remove Decatur’s Confederate Monument May Have Found a Legal Solution,” Decaturish.com (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Sara Patenaude, “Legal Questions Loom over Georgia Confederate Memorials,” Fox 5 Atlanta (August 17, 2017)

Interview with Christopher Phelps, “White Supremacists Have Been Emboldened by Trump,” Aljazeera (August 13, 2017)

Interview with Jason Phillips, “Heritage Vs. Hate: A Military Historian Explains Confederate Memorials in the Mountain State,” WV MetroNews (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Jason Philips, “Sunday Edition with Stacy Smith,” KDKA-TA Pittsburgh (August 20, 2017)

Interview with Jason Phillips, “Talkline with Hoppy Kercheval,” WV MetroNews (August 21, 2017)

Interview with Blain Roberts, “Southern States—and Trump—Resist Calls to Remove Confederate Memorials,” McClatchy (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Blain Roberts, “Unsure about Confederate Statues? Ask Yourself If You Support White Supremacy,” Fresno Bee (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Blain Roberts, “Fresno State Professor on Confederate Monuments: ‘It’s the Moral Thing to Do to Take Them Down,’” Your Central Valley (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Joshua Rothman, “#RaceNYT Video,” New York Times (Facebook video) (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Adam Rothman, “The Story behind DC’s Confederate General Statue,” WUSA9 Offscript (August 15, 2017)

Interview with Adam Rothman, “Confederate Statues Are Coming Down across America,” WUSA9 Offscript (August 17, 2017)

Interview with Ann Rubenstein, “Say No to Hate’: Hundreds at Toronto Rally Decry Racial Violence in Charlottesville Attack,” CBC News (August 14, 2017)

Interview with Jonathan Sarna, “Jewish Leaders Say Anti-Semitism around the Nation Is a Disturbing Trend,” NPR Around the Nation (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Howard Segal, “WVII Interviews Segal for Story on KKK’s History in Maine,” WVII Channel 7 (November 22, 2016)

Interview with Manisha Sinha, “FACT CHECK: Did Robert E. Lee Oppose Slavery?” Daily Caller (August 15, 2017)

Interview with Manisha Sinha, “Why The North Honored Confederates: ‘These Are Not Just Innocuous Monuments’,” Gothamist (August 17, 2017)

Interview with Kevin Waite, “Does Los Angeles Have a Confederate Problem?” KCRW Radio (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Kevin Waite, “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Removes Confederate Monument,” KPCC Radio (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Darin Waters, “The Future of the Vance Monument Pt. 1—A Closer Look at Zebulon Vance’s Political Career,” Blue Ridge Public Radio (August 8, 2017)

Interview with Darin Waters, “NC Confederate statue Debate Likely to Include Vance Monument,” Citizen-Times (August 16, 2017)

Interview with Kidada Williams, “A More Perfect Union? The Reconstruction Era,” BackStory (March 31, 2017)

Interview with Kidada Williams, “How Should We Deal with Monuments to Deeply Flawed Historical Figures?” WDET Detroit Today (August 17, 2017)

Interview with Jonathan Zimmerman, “Confederate monuments Removed and Covered Up Overnight across the US,” The National (CBC News) (August 16, 2017)