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Public History and Memory

 

Beaudreau, Sylvie, “Commemorating a Transnational Hero: The 1909 Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Discovery of Lake Champlain,” Vermont History, 77 (Summer–Fall 2009), 99–118.

Briley, Ron, “The Legend of Sacco and Vanzetti: Keeping the Story Alive in Literature, Song, and Film,” Studies in Popular Culture, 31 (Spring 2009), 101–22.

Dann, Kevin, “Pageants, Parades, and Patriotism: Celebrating Champlain in 1909,” Vermont History, 77 (Summer–Fall 2009), 87–98.

Derr, Jill Mulvay, and Carol Cornwall Madsen, “Preserving the Record and Memory of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo, 1842–92,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Summer 2009), 88–117.

Elfenbein, Jessica I., “Bringing to Life Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth—A How-to Guide,” Public Historian, 31 (Nov. 2009), 13–27.

Gapps, Stephen, “Mobile Monuments: A View of Historical Reenactment and Authenticity from Inside the Costume Cupboard of History,” Rethinking History (London), 13 (Sept. 2009), 395–410.

Giovannetti, Jorge L., “Subverting the Master’s Narrative: Public Histories of Slavery in Plantation America,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 76 (Sept. 2009), 105–26.

Griffin, Larry J., and Kenneth A. Bollen, “What Do These Memories Do? Civil Rights Remembrance and Racial Attitudes,” American Sociological Review, 74 (Aug. 2009), 594–614.

Hassell, Hank, “The Battle for Rainbow Bridge,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Fall 2009), 300–15.

Ingrassia, Brian M., “To ‘Rekindle Embers of Remembrance’: Eureka’s Recruiting Elm in Local Memory and Global Perspective,” Journal of Illinois History, 12 (Summer 2009), 82–106.

Kang, Sunjoo, “Mugukeui 20Segi Jeonjange Daehan Gongsikwhaden Kieok” (American official memories of wars in the 20th century), Migukhaknongip, 40 (Sept. 2008), 5–39. In Korean.

Rafuse, Ethan S., “‘Far More Than a Romantic Adventure’: The American Civil War in Harry Truman’s History and Memory,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (Oct. 2009), 1–20.

 

Guglielmo, Antoniette M., “Workbench of American Taste: Richard F. Bach, Industrial Art, and Consumerism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917–1940” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3342017.

Harrison, Alisa Y., “Reconstructing Somerset Place: Slavery, Memory, and Historical Consciousness” (Duke University, 2008). Order No. DA3331205.

Hunter, Evelyn Scharf, “Embodying History: History, Memory, and Family Geneologies in Contemporary Southern Women’s Writing” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3338118.

O’Connell, Edward T., “Public Commemoration of the Civil War and Monuments to Memory: The Triumph of Robert E. Lee and the Lost Cause” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3340124.

Olsen, Daniel H., “Contesting Identity, Space, and Sacred Site Management at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah” (University of Waterloo, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR43329.

Smoley, John Knute, “Seizing Victory from the Jaws of Deterrence: Preservation and Public Memory of America’s Nike Air Defense Missile System” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3342049.

Stillman, Stephanie Jean, “Remembering the Cruelest Month: The Nework, Labor, and Haunting of Memories of Columbine” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008). Order No. DA3342052.

 

Glant, Tibor, Emlékezzünk Magyarországra, 1956: Tanulmányok a magyar forradalom és szabadságharc amerikai emlékezetéröl (Remember Hungary 1956: Essays on the Hungarian revolution and war of independence in American memory). (Budapest: Kiss József Könyvkiadó, 2008. 320 pp. isbn 978-963-87378-7-8.) In Hungarian.

Greenspan, Anders, Creating Colonial Williamsburg: The Restoration of Virginia’s Eighteenth-Century Capital. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiv, 226 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3343-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8078-5987-2.) Originally published in 2002.

Yui, Daizaburo, Kôsen no kyôwakoku Amerika (A hawkish republic: Researching the war memories in American history). (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2008. 251 pp. Ą780, isbn 978-4-00-431148-5.) In Japanese.

 

Kimbro, Enda E., and Julia G. Costello, with Tevvy Ball, The California Missions: History, Art, and Preservation. (Los Angeles: Getty, 2009. 273 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-89236-983-6.) Heavily illustrated.

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