UID:
almahu_9949383608502882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781000701760
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100070176X
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9780429285158
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0429285159
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9781000701999
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1000701999
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9781000702224
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1000702227
Content:
Against the backdrop of two recent socio-political developmentsthe shift from the Obama to the Trump administration and the surge in nationalist and populist sentiment that ushered in the current administrationContested Commemoration in U.S. History presents eleven essays focused on practices of remembering contested events in Americas national history. This edited volume contains fresh interpretations of public history and collective memory that explore the evolving relationship between the U.S. and its past. The individual chapters investigate efforts to memorialize events or interrogate instances of historical sanitization at the expense of less partial representations that would include other perspectives. The primary source material and geography covered is extensive; contributors use historic sites and monuments, photographs, memoirs, textbooks, periodicals, music, and film to discuss the periods from colonial America, through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars up until the Vietnam War, Civil Rights movement, and Cold War, to explore how the commemoration of those eras resonates in the twenty-first century. Through a range of commemoration media and primary sources, the authors illuminate themes and arguments that are indispensable to students, scholars, and practitioners interested in Public History and American Studies more broadly.
Note:
Introduction : the mystic discords of memory : contestation, obliteration, and sanitization in U.S.-American cultures of memory / Melissa M. Bender and Klara Stephanie Szlezák -- 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 -- "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 -- "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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 0367249480
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367249489
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429285158
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