Publication Date
12-2023
Advisor(s) - Committee Chair
Dorothea Browder, Alexander Olson, Kathryn McClurkin
Degree Program
Department of History
Degree Type
Master of Arts
Abstract
Situated near the original location of the birthplace and childhood home of Jefferson Davis, the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview, Kentucky, houses a 351-foot tall obelisk, completed in 1924, along with a modest museum, gift shop, playground, and picnic area. At the site’s museum, visitors receive an innocuous and seemingly uncontroversial lesson about Davis, the statesman, since most of the interpretive panels focus on Davis’s role as a public servant before becoming the only president of the Confederate States of America.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | History | Public History | Social History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Latham, Lori, ""A Consummation Devoutly to be Wished": Finding a Place for Jefferson Davis in Kentucky's Historical Memory" (2023). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 3689.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/3689