American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory
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American battlefield memorabilia
American Culture
American Customs
American history
American monuments
artifacts of courage and sacrifice
artifacts of oppression
artifacts of resistance
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Civil War
Civil War memory
Civil War relics
collective memory in the United States
commemorating national trauma
commemoration and civil rights
contested symbols of history
Controversial memorial objects
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Historic relics and national identity
historical artifacts and meaning
history of American memorial culture
History of American mourning
history of national mourning
History of U.S. memorialization
History through artifacts
How artifacts shape national id
Language_English
Lynching artifacts
Material culture
material culture in American history
Memorial objects in America
Memorialization in the digital age
Memorialization through centuries
memory and political struggle
Memory politics book
Memory studies
Modern mass shooting memorials
National identity
national memory and identity
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political meaning of objects
politics of remembrance
Post-911 memorials
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Public History
public history of race and violence
relics and cultural trauma
relics as historical evidence
relics of American heroism
relics of atrocity
relics of war and tragedy
Revolutionary War
Revolutionary War relics
September 11th
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Technology and public memory
traumatic objects in history
U.S. History
U.S. memorial culture
U.S. memory and memorialization
U.S. tragedy memorials
U.S. Violence
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- ISBN 9781625347114
- Weight: 401g
- Dimensions: 151 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2023
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The gold epaulettes that George Washington wore into battle. A Union soldier’s bloody shirt in the wake of the Civil War. A crushed wristwatch after the 9/11 attacks. The bullet-riddled door of the Pulse nightclub. Volatile and shape-shifting, relics have long played a role in memorializing the American past, acting as physical reminders of hard-won battles, mass tragedies, and political triumphs.
Surveying the expanse of U.S. history, American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory shows how these objects have articulated glory, courage, and national greatness as well as horror, defeat, and oppression. While relics mostly signified heroism in the nation’s early years, increasingly, they have acquired a new purpose—commemorating victimhood. The atrocious artifacts of lynching and the looted remains of Native American graves were later transformed into shameful things, exposing ongoing racial violence and advancing calls for equality and civil rights. Matthew Dennis pursues this history of fraught public objects and assesses the emergence of new venues of memorialization, such as virtual and digital spaces. Through it all, relics continue to fundamentally ground and shape U.S. public memory in its uncertain present and future.
Surveying the expanse of U.S. history, American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory shows how these objects have articulated glory, courage, and national greatness as well as horror, defeat, and oppression. While relics mostly signified heroism in the nation’s early years, increasingly, they have acquired a new purpose—commemorating victimhood. The atrocious artifacts of lynching and the looted remains of Native American graves were later transformed into shameful things, exposing ongoing racial violence and advancing calls for equality and civil rights. Matthew Dennis pursues this history of fraught public objects and assesses the emergence of new venues of memorialization, such as virtual and digital spaces. Through it all, relics continue to fundamentally ground and shape U.S. public memory in its uncertain present and future.
