Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall

Acknowledgments

I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Haunting, Public Memories, and the National Mall
Roger C. Aden

II. Affective Presences of Ephemeral Memories

Chapter 2. Invoking the Spirits: A Rhetorical Séance
Aaron Hess, A. Cheree Carlson, and Carlos Flores
Chapter 3. Before the National Mall: Coxey's Army and the Precedent for Public Protest
Sean Luechtefeld
Chapter 4. The Bonus Army March of 1932: Uneasy Legacies of Protest, Dissent, and Violence in American Memory
Roger C. Aden and Kenneth E. Foote
Chapter 5. The "Unmarked and Unremarked" Memories of the National Mall: Resurrection City and the Unreconciled History of the Civil Rights Movement as Radical Place-Making
Ethan Bottone, Derek H. Alderman, and Joshua Inwood

III. Faint Traces of Deflected Memories
Chapter 6. Haunting Dreams: Time and Affect in the Neoliberal Commemoration of "I Have a Dream"
Michael P. Vicaro
Chapter 7. The Haunting of "Forgotten" Places: Nineteenth Century Slave-Pens on the National Mall
Elizabethada A. Wright
Chapter 8. The Portrait Monument's Emblematic and Tortured History
Teresa Bergman
Chapter 9. Which Souls Shall Haunt Us? Competing Genocidal Memoryscapes and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Selective Colonial Memorializations
Marouf Hasian Jr. and Stephanie Marek Muller
Chapter 10. Oft' Remembered, Oft' Forgotten: Remembering James Garfield
Theodore F. Sheckels
Chapter 11. The National Gallery of Art: Remembering the Haunting Voices of the Ghosts
Carl T. Hyden

IV. Conclusion

Chapter 12. Confronting the Ghosts in the National Attic
Roger C. Aden

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