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Recent Scholarship

Public History and Memory

Elliott, Michael A., “Indian Patriots on Last Stand Hill,” American Quarterly, 58 (Dec. 2006), 987–1015.

Hisada, Yukako, “Seiramu ni okeru majogari no kioku” (The memory of the Salem witch hunt), in Kiroku to kioku no hikaku bunka shi (Comparative cultural history through documents and memories), ed. Yuji Wakao and Shoji Haga, 165–204. (Nagoya: Nagoya daigaku shuppankai, 2005. ¥5,700, isbn 4815805016.) In Japanese.

Hurley, Andrew, “Narrating the Urban Waterfront: The Role of Public History in Community Revitalization,” Public Historian, 28 (Fall 2006), 19–50.

Kresser, Katie Mullis, “Power and Glory: Brahmin Identity and the Shaw Memorial,” American Art, 20 (Fall 2006), 32–57.

Miller, James S., “Mapping the Boosterist Imaginary: Colonial Williamsburg, Historical Tourism, and the Construction of Managerial Memory,” Public Historian, 28 (Fall 2006), 51–74.

Wada, Mitsuhiro, “Kinen hi no tsukuru Amerika” (The construction of America through monuments), in Kiroku to kioku no hikaku bunka shi (Comparative cultural history through documents and memories), ed. Yuji Wakao and Shoji Haga, 114–64. (Nagoya: Nagoya daigaku shuppankai, 2005. ¥5,700, isbn 4815805016.) In Japanese.

Weible, Robert, “The Blind Man and His Dog: The Public and Its Historians,” Public Historian, 28 (Fall 2006), 9–17.

 

Beevi, Mariam, “Surfin’ Vietnam: Trauma, Historical Memory, and Cultural Politics in Twentieth Century Literature and Film” (University of California, Irvine, 2006). Order No. DA3214055.

Farley, Kyle P., “A Holy Experiment: History and Memory in Pennsylvania, 1682–1800” (University of Pennsylvania, 2006). Order No. DA3211066.

Hill, Roger H., “Memorializing Community Grief: Bedford, Virginia, and the National D-Day Memorial” (George Mason University, 2006). Order No. DA3208974.

Kidwell, Deborah Colene, “Remembering and Forgetting War: Vietnam Memorials and Public Memory” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3214790.

Schuck, Raymond Ignatius, “Dodging the Past: The Brooklyn Dodgers as Public Memory” (Arizona State University, 2006). Order No. DA3210207.

Wayland, Kent Allen, “A Better Past through Technology: World War II Warplanes as Cultural Heritage” (University of Virginia, 2006). Order No. DA3214345.

 

Gabbert, Jim, “Chilocco Indian Agricultural School, a National Register Historic District,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Fall 2006), 342–53.

Kisseloff, Jeff, Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s; An Oral History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. 284 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2416-2.)

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