Commemoration in America

Essays on Monuments, Memorialization, and Memory

David Gobel, Daves Rossell, David Gobel, Daves Rossell

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780813934334
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: History of Architecture

Commemoration lies at the poetic, historiographic, and social heart of human community. It is how societies define themselves and is central to the institution of the city. Addressing the complex ways that monuments in the United States have been imagined, created, and perceived from the colonial period to the present, Commemoration in America is a wide-ranging volume that focuses on the role of remembrance and memorialization in American urban life. The volume's contributors are drawn from a spectrum of disciplines—social and urban history, urban planning, architecture, art history, preservation, and architectural history—and take a broad view of commemoration. In addition to the making of traditional monuments, the essays explore such commemorative acts as building preservation, biography, portraiture, ritual performance, street naming, and the planting of trees.

Providing an overview of American memorialization and the impulses behind it, Commemoration in America emphasizes a universal tendency for individuals and groups to use monuments to define their contemporary social identity and to construct historical narratives. The volume shows that while commemorative acts and objects affect the community in fundamental ways, their meaning is always multivalent and conflicted, attesting to both triumphs and tragedies. Constituting a vital part of both individual and national identity, commemoration's contradictions strike at the core of American identity and speak to the importance of remembrance in the construction of our diverse national cultural landscape.

Contributors: Jhennifer A. Amundson, Judson University * Catherine W. Bishir, North Carolina State University Libraries * Thomas J. Campanella, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * Glenn T. Eskew, Georgia State University * Glenn Forley, Parsons / The New School for Design * Sally Greene, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * Alison K. Hoagland, Michigan Technological University * Lynne Horiuchi, University of California, Berkeley * Ellen M. Litwicki, SUNY Fredonia * David Lowenthal, University College London * Mark A. Peterson, University of California, Berkeley * Richard M. Sommer, University of Toronto * Dell Upton, University of California, Los Angeles

Index

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below

Abel Being Dead, Yet Speaketh (Norton)

Abernathy, Juanita

abolition

abolitionists

Abu Ghraib

Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church, The. See Book of Martyrs (Foxe)

Adams, Ansel

Adams, John Quincy

Adams, Nehemiah

Addison, Joseph

Admiralty Arch

adventus

advertising

Advertising Council

campaign featuring the Freedom Train

campaign on free enterprise

Eighth Annual Report

African Americans: and abolition

affected by Lost Cause

citizenship of

and commemoration

as critics

desegregation in military

discrimination and segregation of

disfranchisement of

few indigenous museums for

and holidays

as honorees

and integration

offended

in politics

in racist illustration

relation to whites

represented in North Carolina Freedom Monument

as speakers

African Church Elm (New Haven, Conn.)

agitprop trains

Agrippa

Alabama Historical Commission

erection of historical marker

Albany (Ga.)

Albany (N.Y.)

Aldrich, Winthrop W.

Alésia (France)

Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City, Okla.)

Alison Lapper Pregnant (Quinn)

allegorical figures, of Wisdom and Justice

Allen, Hannah

Allerton, Samuel

Alvarado (Calif.)

Amache (Colo.)

America (Powers)

American Association of Advertising Agencies

American exceptionalism

American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)

American flag

American Flag Day Association

American Heritage Foundation

American Historical Association

American History Workshop

American Immigrant Wall of Honor (Ellis Island, N.Y.)

Americanism

American Legion

American Magazine of Useful Knowledge, The

American Procedure Act of 1946

American Revolution

and American exceptionalism

as cataclysmic event

commemoration in literature

commemoration in Philadelphia

death of contemporary generation

and Declaration of Independence

and German patriots

and Marquis de Lafayette

memory and

and monumental elms

monuments commemorating

and national unity

outbreak at Lexington and Concord

sesquicentennial of

and George Washington. See also Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution; Sons and Daughters of the Revolution

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Discovering the Monumental Theme
• The Triumphal Marker
• The Weight of History
• Forgoing Memory
• Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors
• Index