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