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Public History and Memory

 

Capps, Michael A., “Interpreting Lincoln: A Work in Progress Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial as a Case Study,” Indiana Magazine of History, 105 (Dec. 2009), 327–41.

Kogan, Nathaniel Smith, “The Mormon Pavilion: Mainstreaming the Saints at the New York World’s Fair, 1964–65,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Fall 2009), 1–52.

Lowe, William C., “‘A Grand and Patriotic Pilgrimage’: The Iowa Civil War Monuments Dedication Tour of 1906,” Annals of Iowa, 69 (Winter 2010), 1–50.

Luconi, Stefano, “Oral Histories of Italian Americans in the Great Depression: The Politics and Economics of the Crisis,” in Oral Histories, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans, ed. Luisa Del Giudice, 31–40. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 288 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-0-230-62003-2.)

Oropeza, Lorena, “The Heart of Chicano History: Reies Loacutepez Tijerina as a Memory Entrepreneur,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, 1 (June 2008), 49–67.

 

Boxer, Majel, “Indigenizing the Museum: History, Decolonization, and Tribal Museums” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3353114.

Iaukea, Sydney Lehua, “E pa’a oukou: Holding and Remembering Hawaiian Understandings of Place and Politics” (University of Hawai‘I at Manoa, 2008). Order No. DA3347643.

White, Nicholas, “Acceding to War: Nationalism, Popular Entertainment, and the Battle of Gettysburg” (University of Arizona, 2009). Order No. DA3352606.

 

Del Giudice, Luisa, ed., Oral Histories, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 288 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-0-230-62003-2.)

Gordon, Tammy S., Private History in Public: Exhibition and the Setting of Everyday Life. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. xvi, 153 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-7591-1934-5. Paper, $19.40, isbn 978-0-7591-1935-2.)

de Mattei, Roberto, and Bruce Cole, eds., Identità nazionale, memoria storica e le scienze umane: Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Firenze 11 Aprile 2008 (National identity, historical memory, and the humanities: Proceedings of the International Conference, Florence, April 11, 2008). (Rome: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 2009. isbn 978-88-8080-101-6.) In Italian.

 

Olson, Ted, and Anthony P. Cavender, eds., A Tennessee Folklore Sampler: Selections from the Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin, 1935–2009. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009. xxvi, 429 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-57233-668-1.)

Phillips, Ted Ashton, Jr., City of the Silent: The Charlestonians of Magnolia Cemetery. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. xxii, 217 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-57003-872-3.)

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