Commemoration in America : essays on monuments, memorialization, and memory /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gobel, David Walter (Editor), Rossell, Daves, 1960- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Discovering the monumental theme. Why do contemporary monuments talk so much? / Dell Upton
  • Memorial observances / Catherine W. Bishir
  • Stone witnesses, dumb pictures, and voices from the grave: objects, images, and collective memory in early Boston / Mark A. Peterson
  • The triumphal marker. Staging a triumph, raising a temple: Philadelphia's "Welcoming parade" for Lafayette, 1824 / Jhennifer A. Amundson
  • "Liberty regulated by law": civic instruction on the George Washington inaugural centennial in Chicago / Ellen M. Litwicki
  • The democratic monument: the reframing of history as heritage / Richard M. Sommer and Glenn Forley
  • "As a witness upon the field of history": the American elm as commemorative vessel in nineteenth-century New England / Thomas J. Campanella
  • The weight of history. Unresolved: the Italian Hall memorial in Calumet, Michigan / Alison K. Hoagland
  • Judge Thomas Ruffin and the shadows of Southern history / Sally Greene
  • Commemorating the civil rights movement with monuments in the urban South / GlennT. Eskew
  • Inventing homelands in Japanese American concentration camps / Lynne Horiuchi
  • Forgoing memory. Adorning damnable cities: pro urbis amore and damnatio memoriae / David Lowenthal.