Press

Media Coverage

• "Metro communities grapple with what to do with Confederate monuments," October 1, 2020, WSB-TV
• "Monuments and symbolism with special guest Sheffield Hale," July 10, 2020, For People with Bishop Rob Wright
• "Opinion: A monumental miscalculation over Confederacy's memorials," June 20, 2020, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• "Cities Want to Remove Toxic Monuments. But Who Will Take Them?" June 18, 2020, The New York Times
• "Toppled but Not Gone: U.N.C. Grapples Anew with Fate of Silent Sam," February 14, 2020, The New York Times
• “Atlanta Confronts Its Confederate Past,” October 2, 2019, US News & World Report
• “There’s a new way to deal with Confederate monuments: Signs that explain their racist history,” September 22, 2019, The Washington Post
• "The future of America’s past: Should we ‘explain’ Confederate statues?" August 22, 2019, The Christian Science Monitor
• "Atlanta NAACP criticizes markers surrounding Confederate monuments," August 21, 2019, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  
• "Atlanta's confederate monuments: how do ‘context markers’ help explain racism?" August 3, 2019, The Guardian
• "Atlanta to add context about racism to historic monuments," August 1, 2019, Associated Press
• "Atlanta installing markers to give context to Confederate monuments," July 26, 2019, WSB-TV
• "Atlanta erecting markers about slavery next to Confederate monuments," July 24, 2019, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• "What Should Happen to Confederate Statues? A City Auctions One for $1.4 Million," June 22, 2019, The New York Times
• "Blocked from taking Confederate statues down, Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis try other ideas," February 12, 2019, USA Today
• "These Atlanta neighbors no longer wanted to live on Confederate Avenue. Here's what they did about it," January 20, 2019, CNN
• "Confederate Avenue is gone. Will other rebel-named roads meet the same fate?" January 18, 2019, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• "Shaw 54th: A disruptive work of art," January 17, 2019, CommonWealth Magazine
• "Rebel Monuments take different route than felled Confederate Avenue," November 26, 2018, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• "Stone Mountain: The Largest Confederate Monument Problem in the World," October 18, 2018, The New York Times
• "'Contextualize' Buckhead's Confederate monument, History Center head says," September 2, 2018, Buckhead Reporter
• "Atlanta effort to rename Confederate Avenue moves forward," August 14, 2018, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• "Stopping White Supremacists From Taking Over an American City Again," August 7, 2018, CityLab
• "What became of the report on Atlanta's Confederate symbols? Very little." July 19, 2018, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• "Historians: Civil War statues need context, should be moved," April 13, 2018, Fox News
• "What Should I Do With My Family's Confederate Hero?" April 10, 2018, CityLab
• "Closer Look: Atlanta Reviews Confederate Monuments; And More," November 14, 2017, WABE
• "Atlanta mayor's committee determining which Confederate monuments stay or go," November 14, 2017, WSB
• "Committee on Confederate monuments makes recommendations," November 13, 2017, Fox 5 Atlanta
• "Opinion: Really understanding Stone Mountain's history," September 29, 2017, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• "Closer Look: Confederate Monuments and Symbols," August 29, 2017, WABE
• "After Charlottesville: How to Approach Confederate Memorials in Your Community," August 21, 2017, National Trust for Historic Preservation
• "Confederate Monuments Coming Down, But Where Are They Going?" August 20, 2017, Patch
• "Confederate monuments embattled," August 19, 2017, The Valdosta Daily Times
• "Opinion: Context shouldn't be monuments' Lost Cause," August 18, 2017, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• "On Confederate monuments, the public stands with Trump," August 17, 2017, The Washington Post

• "America's complicated history with its Confederate past," August 17, 2017, CNN

• "How Should Georgia Handle Its Confederate Monuments?" August 16, 2017, GPB

• "Mayor Stoney: Diversity, context needed on Monument Avenue," June 22, 2017, WTV

  • Transcript of Mayor Stoney's speech, quoting Sheffield Hale, President and CEO of Atlanta History Center

• "Opinion: Bringing clarity, history to monumental community decisions," June 9, 2017, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  

• "Finding Meaning in Monuments: Atlanta History Center Enters Dialogue on Confederate Symbols," Fall 2016, History News Official Magazine of the American Association for State and Local History
  

• "Reconsideration of Memorials and Monuments," November 30, 2016, Official Blog of the American Association for State and Local History
  

• "Critical Thinking: Confederate Flags and Monuments," July 26, 2016, The Magazine Antiques

• "Commentary on Civil War monuments: ‘The past is always more complicated than it seems’," May 1, 2016, The Buckhead Reporter

• "Life with Gracie: How I, a Black Woman, Could Advocate Keeping Confederate Monuments," March 18, 2016, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

• "Confederate Monuments: Should they stay or should they go?," March 4, 2016, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

• "Recast in Stone," February 4, 2016, The Economist

• "Atlanta History Center: Add Context to Confederate Monuments," February 1, 2016, GPB

• "Confronting the Future of New Orleans' Confederate Past," January 14, 2016, Time