Introduction. How and why to read Confederate monuments / Maria Seger
Reading: reading Confederate monuments as texts and in textual contexts. Complticating today's myth of the myth of the Lost Cause: the Calhoun Monument, reconstruction, and reconciliation / Brook Thomas
Print culture and the enduring legacy of Confederate war monuments / Michael C. Weisenburg
South by southwest: Confederate and Conquistador memorials crossing/closing borders / Spencer R. Herrera
Cultural production: reading literary and cultural texts as Confederate monuments and counter-monuments. Weaponizing Silent Sam: heritage politics and The Third Revolultion / Danielle Christmas
"Wasting the past": Albion Tourgée, Confederate memory, and the politics of context / Garrett Bridger Gilmore
Redeeming white women in/through Lost Cause films / Maria Seger
Performing counter-monumentality of the Civil War in Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard and Suzan-Lori Parks's Father Comes Home from the Wars: Parts 1, 2, and 3 / Stacie McCormick
Pedagogy: reading Confederate monuments and counter-monuments for how they teach belonging and social justice. Rewriting the landscape: Black communities and the Confederate monuments they inherited / Cassandra Jackson
Battle of the billboards: white supremacy and memorial culture in #Charlottesville / Lisa Woolfork
Teaching Confederate monuments as American literature / Randi Lynn Tanglen
Conclusion. Challenging monumentality, channelling counter-monumentality / Maria Seger
Afterword / Joanna Davis-McElligatt.
