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Get the most interesting and important stories from the 51精品视频.Kirk Savage is set to appear in a PBS documentary
History of Art and Architecture Professor Kirk Savage, a renowned expert on public monuments, is featured in a new PBS special 鈥10 Monuments That Changed America,鈥 which airs nationally on July 17. In the show, Savage discusses the history of the Civil War Standing Soldiers monuments, which can be found in some 30 states.
Savage is the author of two prizewinning books 鈥 鈥淢onument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape鈥 (2009) and 鈥淪tanding Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America鈥 (1997), the second edition of which will be published this month. He also has been quoted extensively in the national press regarding the history of Civil War statues and the removal of Confederate monuments.
鈥10 Monuments鈥 is just one episode in the series 鈥,鈥 which explores various streets, parks, buildings and towns that reflect our nation鈥檚 history and values.