Contested Commemoration in U.S. History

Introduction: The Mystic Discords of Memory - Contestation, Obliteration, and Sanitization in U.S.-American Cultures of Memory

Melissa M. Bender and Klara Stephanie Szlezak

Part I: Sites and Spaces

Shenandoah National Park and the Racialization of Progress

Alex Harmon

Assassinated Memories: The Enduring Debate over the Murder and Legacy of Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party in Chicago

Adrienne Chudzinski

Memory-Place and the Unintentional Monument: Pittsburgh's Civic Arena (1961-2012) and Its Legacy

Amy Bowman-McElhone and Jeanne M. Persuit

Lost Cause "Ocean to Ocean": Memory, Space, and the Jefferson Davis Highway in the West

Alexander Finkelstein

Part II: Textual Representations

"An American Hero": The Right-Wing Reconstruction of Joseph McCarthy

Christopher Michael Elias

"You Were My Heroes": Memorializing Military Nurses of the Vietnam War

Ingrid Gessner

Whose Heritage? U.S. History Textbooks, American Exceptionalism, and Hispanophobia

Alyssa Kreikemeier

Apologists of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Efforts toward Historic Preservation and Commemoration

John Elia

Part III: Visual and Audiovisual Representations

"No Longer Here": Remembering Japanese American Internment In School Yearbooks

Amy J. Lueck

Recent Antebellum-Themed Cinema: Race, Nation, and the Obama Presidency

Jayson Baker

Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and the Preservation and Performance of American Counter-History

Jodie Childers