Lexington Books
Pages: 254
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-4985-6320-8 • Hardback • April 2018 • $123.00 • (£95.00)
978-1-4985-6321-5 • eBook • April 2018 • $116.50 • (£90.00)
Roger C. Aden is professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University.
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Soul of the Nation
Roger C. Aden
Chapter 2. Civic Tourism and the Washington Monument
Casey R. Schmitt
Chapter 3. Placemaking and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial: An Exploration in User-experience Design
John A. McArthur
Chapter 4. Myth and Accountability: The Negotiation of Rhetorical Tensions in the Korean War Veterans Memorial
Michael R. Kramer
Chapter 5. Commemorating in America’s Front Yard: The National World War II Memorial and the Public Memory Landscape of the National Mall
Jennifer L. Jones Barbour
Chapter 6. A Requiem and a Dream: Discerning the Rhetorical Significance of the Lincoln Memorial
Raymond Blanton
Chapter 7. The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial as a Site of Virtuous Suffering
Lawrence J. Prelli
Chapter 8. Entrepreneurs and Immigrants: Representing American Identity in the National Museum of American History
Jennifer Keohane
Chapter 9. Intergenerational Cultural Trauma and the National Museum of the American Indian
Ernest Stromberg
Chapter 10. Public Memory as Contested Site: The Struggle for Existence at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Timothy J. Brown
Chapter 11. Extending the National Narrative: The MLK Memorial and the Museum of African American History and Culture
Lisa Benton-Short
Chapter 12. Memorials behind the One We See: The Story of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
Karen A. Franck
Chapter 13. Stepping into History: Time and Dialogue in the Progressive Experience of the FDR Memorial
Catherine L. Langford
Chapter 14. Conclusion: Soul Searching and Public Memory on the National Mall
Roger C. Aden
Memorials, like people, have biographies, and these thoughtful essays escort readers into the vibrant, challenging world of memorial processes on our National Mall.
— Edward T. Linenthal, author of Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum and The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in Amer
Few places in the US are more central to US national identity than is the National Mall in Washington, DC. This book engages a crucial question regarding this space: “How does the National Mall reflect the soul of the nation?” The lively and accessible chapters collected address this central question with care and charisma. This is a fine book about the National Mall. It is also a dynamic introduction to the rhetorical and cultural study of memory places and national identity.
— Greg Dickinson, Colorado State University