Karen Cox in No Common Ground documents the memory war over statuary from the immediate postwar era to today. In retrospect, these tragedies were mere skirmishes in the summer of 2020, Black Americans and their white allies fought to ensure that Black lives mattered in the shadow of Confederate monuments across the nation. Two years later, a white man killed a young white woman defending her community against white supremacists who rejected efforts to remove the Robert E. The most recent campaign in the Civil War memory battle began in 2015 when a white supremacist who embraced the Confederate, Lost Cause memory of the Civil War murdered nine Black church members. The people who lived and died during and immediately after the American Civil War had no notion that the battle over the war's memory would continue into the twenty-first century.
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