Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory - Marked, Unmarked (Paperback)

From Wounded Knee to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and from the Upper Big Branch mine disaster to the Trail of Tears, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered presents photographs of significant sites from US history, posing unsettling questions about the contested memory of traumatic episodes from the nation's past. Focusing especially on landscapes related to African American, Native American, and labor history, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered reveals new vistas of officially commemorated sites, sites that are neglected or obscured, and sites that serve as a gathering place for active rituals of organized memory. These powerful photographs by award-winning photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein are interspersed with short essays by some of the leading historians of the United States. The book is introduced with substantive meditations on meaning and landscape by Alex Lichtenstein, editor of the American Historical Review, and Edward T. Linenthal, former editor of the Journal of American History. Individually, these images convey American history in new and sometimes startling ways. Taken as a whole, the volume amounts to a starkly visual reckoning with the challenges of commemorating a violent and conflictual history of subjugation and resistance that we forget at our peril.

General

Imprint:	West Virginia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2017
Authors:	Andrew Lichtenstein • Alex Lichtenstein
Foreword by:	Edward T. Linenthal
Dimensions:	216 x 229mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	180
ISBN-13:	978-1-943665-89-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-943665-89-3
Barcode:	9781943665891

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