Contested Commemoration in U.S. History - Diverging Public Interpretations (Hardcover)

Against the backdrop of two recent socio-political developments-the shift from the Obama to the Trump administration and the surge in nationalist and populist sentiment that ushered in the current administration-Contested Commemoration in U.S. History presents eleven essays focused on practices of remembering contested events in America's national history. This edited volume contains fresh interpretations of public history and collective memory that explore the evolving relationship between the U.S. and its past. The individual chapters investigate efforts to memorialize events or interrogate instances of historical sanitization at the expense of less partial representations that would include other perspectives. The primary source material and geography covered is extensive; contributors use historic sites and monuments, photographs, memoirs, textbooks, periodicals, music, and film to discuss the periods from colonial America, through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars up until the Vietnam War, Civil Rights movement, and Cold War, to explore how the commemoration of those eras resonates in the twenty-first century. Through a range of commemoration media and primary sources, the authors illuminate themes and arguments that are indispensable to students, scholars, and practitioners interested in Public History and American Studies more broadly.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Global Perspectives on Public History
Release date:	October 2019
First published:	2020
Editors:	Melissa M. Bender • Klara Stephanie Szlezak
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	228
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-24932-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-367-24932-4
Barcode:	9780367249328

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