Shadowed ground : America's landscapes of violence and tragedy / Kenneth E. Foote.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foote, Kenneth E., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic sites--Social aspects--United States.

Historic sites.

Violence--United States--History.

Violence.

Disasters.

History.

Historic sites--Social aspects.

United States.

Disasters--United States--History.

United States--History, Local.

Local history.

Physical Description:

398 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.

Summary:

Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized -- or not -- the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Contents:

Chapter 1 A Landscape of Violence and Tragedy 1

Chapter 2 The Veneration of Heroes and Martyrs 36

Chapter 3 Community and Catharsis 80

Chapter 4 Heroic Lessons 111

Chapter 5 Innocent Places 145

Chapter 6 The Mark of Shame 174

Chapter 7 The Land-Shape of Memory and Tradition 214

Chapter 8 Stigmata of National Identity 265

Chapter 9 Invisible and Shadowed Pasts 293

Afterword: Recent Traumas, Changing Memories, Continuing Tensions 337.

Notes:

"Revised and updated."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [359]-381) and index.

ISBN:

0292705255

OCLC:

51916362