Historical Memory, Reconciliation, and the Shaping of the Postbellum Landscape: The Civil War Monuments of Forest Park, St. Louis

Abstract

When viewed collectively, these monuments—and the ceremonies surrounding them—offer significant insight into the changing views and attitudes of the St. Louis citizenry with regard to sectional reconciliation, illuminating the shifting memories and evolving history of the Civil War in Missouri and the political, social, and cultural implications of the bloody and divisive conflict.

Keywords

• 6.1
• confederate monuments
• george julian zolnay
• james wilson alexander macdonald
• katherine poole-jones
• moses jacob ezekiel
• public art
• public monuments
• robert cauer
• wellington w. gardner
• wilbur t. trueblood