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The 2002 revelation that George Washington kept slaves in his
executive mansion at Philadelphia's Independence National
Historical Park in the 1790s prompted an eight-year controversy
about the role of slavery in America's commemorative landscape.
When the President's House installation opened in 2010, it became
the first federal property to feature a slave memorial. In Upon the
Ruins of Liberty, Roger Aden offers a compelling account that
explores the development of this important historic site and how
history, space, and public memory intersected with contemporary
racial politics. Aden constructs this engrossing tale by drawing on
archival material and interviews with principal figures in the
controversy-including historian Ed Lawler, site activist Michael
Coard, and site designer Emanuel Kelly. Upon the Ruins of Liberty
chronicles the politically-charged efforts to create a fitting
tribute to the place where George Washington (and later, John
Adams) shaped the presidency while denying freedom to the nine
enslaved Africans in his household. From design to execution, the
plans prompted advocates to embrace stories informed by race, and
address difficulties that included how to handle the results of the
site excavation. As such, this landmark project raised concerns and
provided lessons about the role of public memory and how places are
made to shape the nation's identity.
Childhood Memory Spaces: How Enduring Memories of Childhood Places
Shape Our Lives explores the places adults remember from their
childhood. More specifically, it examines the questions "what kinds
of places do we remember?" and "why do they linger in our
memories?". The answers emerge from a variety of sources, including
scholarship in cognitive science, environmental psychology,
geography, communication, etc., but they are illustrated primarily
through the over 100 stories told by adults who still vividly
recall the places where key facets of their identity developed.
Those stories reveal both that the answers are significantly more
complex than one academic perspective can explain and that
profoundly personal narratives can highlight their complexity in
ways that scientific and social scientific research alone cannot.
This book meets a need to integrate related, yet independent, lines
of research in the natural and social sciences-doing so with a
decidedly humanistic touch. Specifically, the book offers an
interdisciplinary exploration of how place, memory, and identity
intersect as we craft our life stories while seeking what Kenneth
Burke called equipment for living with the challenges that life
presents along the way. Weaving theory with personal narratives,
Childhood Memory Spaces underscores a fundamental relationship: the
stories of our lives are entwined with place, and we understand
these stories (and ourselves) by reflecting upon the ways in which
these memorable places have shaped, and continue to shape, our
lives.
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.
Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports
fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a
variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among
sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a
growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans,
Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul
Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, captures an eclectic collection
of new studies from accomplished scholars in the fields such as
communication, business, geography, kinesiology, media, and sports
management and administration, using a wide range of methodologies
including quantitative, qualitative, and critical analyses. In the
communication revolution of the twenty-first century, the study of
mediated sports is critical. As fans use all media at their
disposal to consume sports and carry their sports-viewing
experience online, they are seizing the initiative and asserting
themselves into the mediated sports-dissemination process. They are
occupying traditional roles of consumers/receivers of sports, but
also as sharers and sports content creators. Fans are becoming
pseudo sports journalists. They are interpreting mediated sports
content for other fans. They are making their voice heard by sports
organizations and athletes. Mediated sports, in essence, provide a
context for studying and understanding where and how the
communication revolution of the twenty-first century is being
waged. With their collection of studies by scholars from North
America and Europe, Earnheardt, Haridakis, and Hugenberg illuminate
the symbiotic relationship among and between sports organizations,
the media, and their audiences. Sports Fans, Identity, and
Socialization spurs both the researcher and the interested fan to
consider what the study of sports tells us about ourselves and the
society in which we live.
Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports
fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a
variety of academic disciplines. Identity and socialization among
sports fans are particular burgeoning areas of study among a
growing cadre of specialists in the social sciences. Sports Fans,
Identity, and Socialization, edited by Adam C. Earnheardt, Paul
Haridakis, and Barbara Hugenberg, captures an eclectic collection
of new studies from accomplished scholars in the fields such as
communication, business, geography, kinesiology, media, and sports
management and administration, using a wide range of methodologies
including quantitative, qualitative, and critical analyses. In the
communication revolution of the twenty-first century, the study of
mediated sports is critical. As fans use all media at their
disposal to consume sports and carry their sports-viewing
experience online, they are seizing the initiative and asserting
themselves into the mediated sports-dissemination process. They are
occupying traditional roles of consumers/receivers of sports, but
also as sharers and sports content creators. Fans are becoming
pseudo sports journalists. They are interpreting mediated sports
content for other fans. They are making their voice heard by sports
organizations and athletes. Mediated sports, in essence, provide a
context for studying and understanding where and how the
communication revolution of the twenty-first century is being
waged. With their collection of studies by scholars from North
America and Europe, Earnheardt, Haridakis, and Hugenberg illuminate
the symbiotic relationship among and between sports organizations,
the media, and their audiences. Sports Fans, Identity, and
Socialization spurs both the researcher and the interested fan to
consider what the study of sports tells us about ourselves and the
society in which we live.
This work reveals the storied love affair that has long existed
between native Nebraskans and the University of Nebraska football
team. The author draws upon his experiences as a devoted
"Huskerviller," and the insights of more than 500 other Husker fans
who shared their ideas through interviews, questionnaires, and
Internet communication, to compose a story that highlights how the
culture, history, and geography of Nebraska are intimately embedded
in fans' devotion to the Cornhuskers. The book features photographs
and an extensive bibliography, while an appendix provides 16 essays
written by devoted Husker fans.
The 2002 revelation that George Washington kept slaves in his
executive mansion at Philadelphia's Independence National
Historical Park in the 1790s prompted an eight-year controversy
about the role of slavery in America's commemorative landscape.
When the President's House installation opened in 2010, it became
the first federal property to feature a slave memorial.
In "Upon the Ruins of Liberty, " Roger Aden offers a compelling
account that explores the development of this important historic
site and how history, space, and public memory intersected with
contemporary racial politics. Aden constructs this engrossing tale
by drawing on archival material and interviews with principal
figures in the controversy-including historian Ed Lawler, site
activist Michael Coard, and site designer Emanuel Kelly.
"Upon the Ruins of Liberty" chronicles the politically-charged
efforts to create a fitting tribute to the place where George
Washington (and later, John Adams) shaped the presidency while
denying freedom to the nine enslaved Africans in his household.
From design to execution, the plans prompted advocates to embrace
stories informed by race, and address difficulties that included
how to handle the results of the site excavation. As such, this
landmark project raised concerns and provided lessons about the
role of public memory and how places are made to shape the nation's
identity.
A conversation about who we are, where we've been, and where we
might be going Popular Stories and Promised Lands enters a
conversation about who we are, where we've been, and where we might
be going by suggesting that possible answers to those questions can
be found in the popular stories we encounter at the movies, on
television, in popular magazines, and even on the funny pages. As
countless scholars and popular writers have noted, those of us
living in the United States find ourselves at a cultural
crossroads. We are increasingly aware that the stories that once
permeated life in these United States, stories that tell us that
social and economic progress comes from working hard, that everyone
has an equal opportunity to experience such progress, do not
resonate to the degree they once did. Because many Americans have
traditionally defined themselves, others, and their unique sense of
place through these stories, we find ourselves displaced socially,
economically, politically, and/or culturally. So, Roger Aden says,
we go to places of our own making. Fans of the television series
The X-Files return to the Funhouse each week for a dose of
frightening fun. Fans of the weekly magazine Sports Illustrated
play in the American Elysian Fields where democratic efforts at
balancing work and play are valued. Fans of the movie Field of
Dreams work as altruistic producers in an alternative garden spot.
Grounded in the author's own experiences and reinforced by the
voices of approximately two hundred additional fans of the four
popular stories, this book offers a compelling case for
understanding the alleged wasteland of popular culture as a fertile
site of individually and communally created sacred places.
Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall: Displaced and Ephemeral
Public Memories vividly illustrates that a nation's history is more
complicated than the simple binary of remembered/forgotten. Some
parts of history, while not formally recognized within a
commemorative landscape, haunt those landscapes by virtue of their
ephemeral or displaced presence. Rather than being discretely
contained within a formal sites, these memories remain public by
lingering along the edges and within the crevices of commemorative
landscapes. By integrating theories of haunting, place, and public
memory, this collection demonstrates that the National Mall, often
referred to as "the nation's front yard," might better be
understood as "the nation's attic" because it hides those issues we
do not want to address but cannot dismiss. The neatly ordered
installations and landscaping of the National Mall, if one looks
and listens closely, reveal the messiness of US history. From the
ephemeral memories of protests on the Mall to the displaced but
persistent presences of inequality, each chapter in this book
examines the ways in which contemporary public life in the US is
haunted by incomplete efforts to close the book on the past.
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