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Public History and Memory

Atalay, Sonya, “No Sense of the Struggle: Creating a Context for Survivance at the NMAI,” American Indian Quarterly, 30 (Summer–Fall 2006), 597–618.

Carbaugh, Donal, and Lisa Rudnick, “Which Place, What Story? Cultural Discourse at the Border of the Blackfeet Reservation and Glacier National Park,” Great Plains Quarterly, 26 (Summer 2006), 167–84.

Caro, Mario A., “You Are Here: The NMAI as Site of Identification,” American Indian Quarterly, 30 (Summer–Fall 2006), 543–57.

Carpio, Myla Vicenti, “(Un)disturbing Exhibitions: Indigenous Historical Memory at the nmai,” American Indian Quarterly, 30 (Summer–Fall 2006), 632–45.

Cochrane, Lynn Scott, “Is There a Presidential Library Subsystem?,” Public Historian, 28 (Summer 2006), 143–64.

Delugan, Robin Maria, “‘South of the Border’ at the nmai,” American Indian Quarterly, 30 (Summer–Fall 2006), 558–73.

Fawcett, Sharon, “Presidential Libraries: A View from the Center,” Public Historian, 28 (Summer 2006), 13–36.

Fink, Leon, “When Community Comes Home to Roost: The Southern Milltown as Lost Cause,” Journal of Social History, 40 (Fall 2006), 119–45.

Geselbracht, Raymond, “Creating the Harry S. Truman Library: The First Fifty Years,” Public Historian, 28 (Summer 2006), 37–78.

Goldschmidt, Henry, “The Voices of Jacob on the Streets of Brooklyn: Black and Jewish Israelites in and around Crown Heights,” American Ethnologist, 33 (Aug. 2006), 378–96.

Hackman, Larry, “Toward Better Policies and Practices for Presidential Libraries,” Public Historian, 28 (Summer 2006), 165—83.

Harcourt, Edward John, “‘The Boys Will Have to Fight the Battles Without Me’: The Making of Sam Davis, ‘Boy Hero of the Confederacy,’” Southern Cultures, 12 (Fall 2006), 29–54.

Hufbauer, Benjamin, “Spotlights and Shadows: Presidents and Their Administrations in Presidential Museum Exhibits,” Public Historian, 28 (Summer 2006), 117–31.

Isaac, Gwyneira, “What Are Our Expectations Telling Us? Encounters with the nmai,” American Indian Quarterly, 30 (Summer–Fall 2006), 574–96.

Jacknis, Ira, “A New Thing? The nmai in Historical and Instuitional Perspective,” American Indian Quarterly, 30 (Summer–Fall 2006), 511–42.

Lonetree, Amy, “Missed Oppurtunities: Reflections on the nmai,” American Indian Quarterly, 30 (Summer–Fall 2006), 632–45.

Potter, Lee Ann, “Education Programs in the Presidential Libraries: A Report from the Field,” Public Historian, 28 (Summer 2006), 133–42.

Smith, Nancy Kegan, and Gary M. Stern, “A Historical Review of Access to Records in Presidential Libraries,” Public Historian, 28 (Summer 2006), 79–116.

Vivian, Bradford, “Neoliberal Epideictic: Rhetorical Form and Commemorative Politics on September 11, 2002,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 92 (Feb. 2006), 1–26.

Vizenor, Gerald Robert, “George Morrison: Anishinaabe Expressionist Artist,” American Indian Quarterly, 30 (Summer–Fall 2006), 646–60.

Waterston, Alisse, and Barbara Rylko-Bauer, “Out of the Shadows of History and Memory: Personal Family Narratives in Ethnographies of Rediscovery,” American Ethnologist, 33 (Aug. 2006), 397–412.

 

Aonuma, Satoru, “The Enola Gay in American Memory: A Study of Rhetoric in Historical Controversy” (Wayne State University, 2050). Order No. DA3198673.

Guthrie, Thomas H., “Recognizing New Mexico: Heritage Development and Cultural Politics in the Land of Enchantment” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3195013.

Hua, Anh, “Memory and Cultural Trauma: Women of Color in Literature and Film” (York University, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR11579.

Mateer, Megan, “Living History as Performance: An Analysis of the Manner in Which Historical Narrative Is Developed through Performance” (Bowling Green State University, 2006). Order No. DA3196683.

 

Carr, David, A Place Not a Place: Reflection and Possibility in Museums and Libraries. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xviii, 151 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-7591-1019-9. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-7591-1020-5.)

Ishizuka, Karen L., Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xxiv, 217 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03130-4. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07372-4.) Heavily illustrated.

Kwon, Heonik, After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xiv, 217 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-520-24796-3. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-520-24797-0.)

Levitch, Mark, Panthéon de la Guerre: Reconfiguring a Panorama of the Great War. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. xiv, 208 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-8262-1678-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Maccarini, Roberto, ed., Ways of Remembering. Revisiting North American Sources and Documents: Canada and the United States. (Milan: Selene, 2006. 366 pp. €12,00, isbn 88-7894-008-6.)

Walker, Melissa, Southern Farmers and Their Stories: Memory and Meaning in Oral History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xiv, 324 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2409-4.)

Wilson, Waziyatawin Angela, ed., In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: The Dakota Commemorative Marches of the 21st Century. (St. Paul: Living Justice, 2006. 316 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-9721886-2-2.)

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