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US public memory, rhetoric, and the National Mall / edited by Roger C. Aden.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Lexington studies in contemporary rhetoric.
- Lexington studies in contemporary rhetoric
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collective memory--United States.
- Collective memory.
- Group identity--United States.
- Group identity.
- Memorialization--United States.
- Memorialization.
- Memorials--Social aspects--United States.
- Memorials.
- Monuments--Social aspects--United States.
- Monuments.
- Museums--Social aspects--United States.
- Museums.
- Public history--United States.
- Public history.
- Public spaces--Social aspects--United States.
- Public spaces.
- Buildings.
- Memorials--Social aspects.
- Museums--Social aspects.
- Public spaces--Social aspects.
- Mall, The (Washington, D.C.).
- Washington (D.C.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Washington (D.C.).
- United States.
- Washington (D.C.)--The Mall.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages).
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Other Title:
- U.S. public memory, rhetoric, and the National Mall
- United States public memory, rhetoric, and the National Mall
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines "the nation's front yard," understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated examination of how the National Mall shares a moral story of the United States and, in so doing, reveals the soul of the nation. The contributors explore 11 different memorials, monuments, and museums found across the Mall, considering how each rhetorically remembers a key element of the nation's past, what the rhetorical memory tells us about the nation's soul, and how each site must thus be understood in relation to the commemorative landscape of the Mall.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the soul of the nation / Roger C. Aden
- Civic tourism and the Washington Monument / Casey R. Schmitt
- Placemaking and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: an exploration in user-experience design / John A. McArthur
- Myth and accountability: the negotiation of rhetorical tensions in the Korean War Veterans Memorial / Michael R. Kramer
- Commemorating in America's front yard: the National World War II Memorial and the public memory landscape of the National Mall / Jennifer L. Jones Barbour
- A requiem and a dream: discerning the rhetorical significance of the Lincoln Memorial / Raymond Blanton
- The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial as a site of virtuous suffering / Lawrence J. Prelli
- Entrepreneurs and immigrants: representing American identity in the National Museum of American History / Jennifer Keohane
- Intergenerational cultural trauma and the National Museum of the American Indian / Ernest Stromberg
- Public memory as contested site: the struggle for existence at the National Museum of African American History and Culture / Timothy J. Brown
- Extending the national narrative: the MLK Memorial and the Museum of African American History and Culture / Lisa Benton-Short
- Memorials behind the one we see: the story of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial / Karen A. Franck
- Stepping into history: time and dialogue in the progressive experience of the FDR Memorial / Catherine L. Langford
- Conclusion: soul searching and public memory on the National Mall / Roger C. Aden.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-3948-6
- 1-4985-6321-X
- OCLC:
- 1029089424
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