Americans have persistently expressed fascination with the nation's
most famous battlefields through patriotic rhetoric, monument
building, physical preservation, and battle reenactment. But each
site is also a place where different groups of Americans come to
compete for ownership of cherished national stories and to argue
about the meaning of war, the importance of martial sacrifice, and
the significance of preserving the nation's patriotic landscape.
From the anniversary speeches at Lexington and Concord that shaped
the image of the minuteman to Alamo Day speeches invoking the Texas
"freedom fighters" of 1836 in support of the contras in Nicaragua;
from passionate arguments over the placement of Confederate
monuments at Gettysburg to confrontations between militant American
Indian Movement and "Custer loyalists" during the Little Bighorn
centennial in 1976; from the treatment of the USS Arizona at Pearl
Harbor to continuing attempts to maintain the purity of these
places in the face of commercialization---Sacred Ground details the
ongoing struggles to define, control, and subvert patriotic faith
as expressed at these ceremonial sites.
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