{"id":4941,"date":"2021-05-26T02:36:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T02:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2021-05-26T02:36:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T02:36:59","slug":"crespino-quoted-in-ajc-article-on-the-future-of-stone-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/05\/26\/crespino-quoted-in-ajc-article-on-the-future-of-stone-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Crespino Quoted in &#8216;AJC&#8217; Article on the Future of Stone Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/crespino-joseph.html\">Joseph Crespino<\/a>, Jimmy Carter Professor and Department Chair, was recently quoted in an <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution <\/em>article about the fate of Georgia&#8217;s Stone Mountain, the three-acre carving that memorializes Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. The article discusses recent proposals to provide greater historical context for the memorial, whose construction was motivated by white supremacist ideologies. Read a snippet that quotes Crespino below, along with the full piece: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/atlanta-news\/what-telling-the-truth-about-stone-mountain-might-look-like\/732I32LU4RFL5M5MNO75WEC774\/\">What \u2018telling the truth\u2019 about Stone Mountain might look like<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cNostalgia for a white supremacist past,\u201d said Emory University professor Joe Crespino, \u201cwas driving the revival of the Klan at the same time it was driving the memorialization efforts of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Joseph Crespino, Jimmy Carter Professor and Department Chair, was recently quoted in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article about the fate of Georgia&#8217;s Stone Mountain, the three-acre carving that memorializes Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and Robert E. Lee. The article discusses recent proposals to provide greater historical context for the memorial, whose construction was motivated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiracism","category-faculty","category-public-humanities","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}