The efforts of the UDC were not uncontested Cox documents African Americans' challenges to their efforts. Cox's previous study Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture (2003) examines their successors, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), who placed these statues in public spaces in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Women's groups played an outsized role in articulating and advocating Confederate war memory in the immediate aftermath of the war, the Ladies' Memorial Association buried the dead.

As she does so, she builds on Lost Cause monuments and the women's groups who built them. Karen Cox in No Common Ground documents the memory war over statuary from the immediate postwar era to today. In retrospect, these tragedies were mere skirmishes in the summer of 2020, Black Americans and their white allies fought to ensure that Black lives mattered in the shadow of Confederate monuments across the nation. Two years later, a white man killed a young white woman defending her community against white supremacists who rejected efforts to remove the Robert E.

The most recent campaign in the Civil War memory battle began in 2015 when a white supremacist who embraced the Confederate, Lost Cause memory of the Civil War murdered nine Black church members. The people who lived and died during and immediately after the American Civil War had no notion that the battle over the war's memory would continue into the twenty-first century.

Karen cox no common ground