This edited volume contains fresh interpretations of public history and collective memory that explore the evolving relationship between the U.S. and its past. An indispensable text for students, scholars and practitioners interested in Historical Memory, Public History and American Studies.
This edited volume contains fresh interpretations of public history and collective memory that explore the evolving relationship between the U.S. and its past. An indispensable text for students, scholars and practitioners interested in Historical Memory, Public History and American Studies.
Melissa M. Bender is a senior lecturer and the associate director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of California, Davis. Her monograph, Dysfunctional Family Values: Nurturing the Neoliberal Self in U.S. Memoir, will be published in 2020. Her research interests include visual and material rhetoric, writing studies, and American cultural studies. Klara Stephanie Szlezák is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Passau, Germany. She is the author of "Canonized in History": Literary Tourism and 19th-Century Writers' Houses in New England. Her research interests include museum studies, visual culture studies, and the history of immigration.
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Introduction: The Mystic Discords of Memory - Contestation, Obliteration, and Sanitization in U.S.-American Cultures of Memory Melissa M. Bender and Klara Stephanie Szlezák Part I: Sites and Spaces Shenandoah National Park and the Racialization of Progress Alex Harmon Assassinated Memories: The Enduring Debate over the Murder and Legacy of Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party in Chicago Adrienne Chudzinski Memory-Place and the Unintentional Monument: Pittsburgh's Civic Arena (1961-2012) and Its Legacy Amy Bowman-McElhone and Jeanne M. Persuit Lost Cause "Ocean to Ocean": Memory, Space, and the Jefferson Davis Highway in the West Alexander Finkelstein Part II: Textual Representations "An American Hero": The Right-Wing Reconstruction of Joseph McCarthy Christopher Michael Elias "You Were My Heroes": Memorializing Military Nurses of the Vietnam War Ingrid Gessner Whose Heritage? U.S. History Textbooks, American Exceptionalism, and Hispanophobia Alyssa Kreikemeier Apologists of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Efforts toward Historic Preservation and Commemoration John Elia Part III: Visual and Audiovisual Representations "No Longer Here": Remembering Japanese American Internment In School Yearbooks Amy J. Lueck Recent Antebellum-Themed Cinema: Race, Nation, and the Obama Presidency Jayson Baker Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and the Preservation and Performance of American Counter-History Jodie Childers
Introduction: The Mystic Discords of Memory - Contestation, Obliteration, and Sanitization in U.S.-American Cultures of Memory Melissa M. Bender and Klara Stephanie Szlezák Part I: Sites and Spaces Shenandoah National Park and the Racialization of Progress Alex Harmon Assassinated Memories: The Enduring Debate over the Murder and Legacy of Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party in Chicago Adrienne Chudzinski Memory-Place and the Unintentional Monument: Pittsburgh's Civic Arena (1961-2012) and Its Legacy Amy Bowman-McElhone and Jeanne M. Persuit Lost Cause "Ocean to Ocean": Memory, Space, and the Jefferson Davis Highway in the West Alexander Finkelstein Part II: Textual Representations "An American Hero": The Right-Wing Reconstruction of Joseph McCarthy Christopher Michael Elias "You Were My Heroes": Memorializing Military Nurses of the Vietnam War Ingrid Gessner Whose Heritage? U.S. History Textbooks, American Exceptionalism, and Hispanophobia Alyssa Kreikemeier Apologists of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Efforts toward Historic Preservation and Commemoration John Elia Part III: Visual and Audiovisual Representations "No Longer Here": Remembering Japanese American Internment In School Yearbooks Amy J. Lueck Recent Antebellum-Themed Cinema: Race, Nation, and the Obama Presidency Jayson Baker Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and the Preservation and Performance of American Counter-History Jodie Childers
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