{"id":6402,"date":"2023-02-21T17:36:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T17:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=6402"},"modified":"2023-02-21T17:36:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T17:36:16","slug":"crespino-interviewed-for-atlanta-history-centers-new-film-monument-the-untold-story-of-stone-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2023\/02\/21\/crespino-interviewed-for-atlanta-history-centers-new-film-monument-the-untold-story-of-stone-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Crespino Interviewed for Atlanta History Center&#8217;s New Film &#8220;Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain Trailer\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KgeNTn-gYww?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Trailer for &#8220;Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/crespino-joseph.html\">Joseph Crespino<\/a>, Department Chair and Jimmy Carter Professor of History, was interviewed for the Atlanta History Center&#8217;s first-ever original documentary, &#8220;Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain.&#8221; The film provides a window into the making of the largest monument to the Confederacy in the world, including aspects of its history that are often glossed over. The <em>Atlanta Journal Constitution <\/em>recently published an article about &#8220;Monument,&#8221; in which they cite one of Crespino&#8217;s comments from the film. Read a quote below from the <em>AJC <\/em>piece below along with the full article: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/neighborhoods\/dekalb\/atlanta-history-centers-first-documentary-takes-on-stone-mountain\/RSPMTYVIH5B4JDAWZLQPVLUJRU\/\">Atlanta History Center\u2019s first documentary takes on Stone Mountain.<\/a>&#8221; Also view the documentary itself on the Atlanta History Center site: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantahistorycenter.com\/monument\/\">Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It was finished in 1972, more than a century after the end of the Civil War. <br><br>&#8220;The park, Emory University historian Joseph Crespino says in the film, is &#8216;a place that memorializes people who fought for a version of the country that we reject today.&#8217;<br><br>&#8220;&#8216;A lot of people just don\u2019t even know,&#8217; Cynthia Spence, co-chair of anthropology and sociology at Spelman College, says. &#8216;They\u2019d don\u2019t understand that Stone Mountain, as well as many Confederate monuments all over this country, were very intentionally placed to keep Black people in their places.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Joseph Crespino, Department Chair and Jimmy Carter Professor of History, was interviewed for the Atlanta History Center&#8217;s first-ever original documentary, &#8220;Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain.&#8221; The film provides a window into the making of the largest monument to the Confederacy in the world, including aspects of its history that are often glossed [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiracism","category-faculty","category-public-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402","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=6402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}