Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth CenturyIn a compelling inquiry into public events ranging from the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial through ethnic community fairs to pioneer celebrations, John Bodnar explores the stories, ideas, and symbols behind American commemorations over the last century. Such forms of historical consciousness, he argues, do not necessarily preserve the past but rather address serious political matters in the present. |
Contents
The Memory Debate An Introduction | 13 |
Public Memory in NineteenthCentury America Background and Context | 21 |
COMMUNAL FORUMS | 39 |
The Construction of Ethnic Memory | 41 |
Commemoration in the City Indianapolis and Cleveland | 78 |
A REGIONAL FORUM | 111 |
Memory in the Midwest before World War II | 113 |
Memory in the Midwest after World War II | 138 |
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Page 11 - It is a current of continuous thought whose continuity is not at all artificial, for it retains from the past only what still lives or is capable of living in the consciousness of the groups keeping the memory alive.