Kirk Savage, Standing soldiers, kneeling slaves : race, war, and monument in nineteenth-century America. Princeton University Press, 1997 - request through interlibrary loan.
Dell Upton. What can and can't be said : race, uplift, and monument building in the contemporary South. 2015. Chapter 1.
Grace Elizabeth Hale. Making whiteness : the culture of segregation in the South, 1890-1940. Pantheon Books, c1998 - request through interlibrary loan.
James W. Loewen. Lies across America : what our historic sites get wrong. Simon & Schuster, 2000