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Contested commemoration in U.S. history : diverging public interpretations / edited by Melissa M. Bender and Klara Stephanie Szlezák.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Global perspectives on public history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historic sites.
- Monuments.
- History.
- Monuments--Political aspects.
- History--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Collective memory.
- Memorialization.
- United States--History--Errors, inventions, etc.
- United States.
- Memorialization--Political aspects--United States.
- Collective memory--Political aspects--United States.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Monuments--Political aspects--United States.
- Monuments--United States--History.
- Historic sites--Political aspects--United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0367249324
- 9780367249328
- 0367249480
- 9780367249489
- OCLC:
- 1103981393
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