Commemoration in America : essays on monuments, memorialization, and memory / edited by David Gobel and Daves Rossell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gobel, David Walter, editor.

Rossell, Daves, 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monuments--United States.

Monuments.

Memorialization--United States.

Memorialization.

Nationalism and collective memory--United States.

Nationalism and collective memory.

Art and society--United States.

Art and society.

United States.

Physical Description:

346 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index.

ISBN:

9780813933726

0813933722

0813933730

9780813933733

OCLC:

827010591