Framing public memory (University of Alabama Press, 2004)
Public memory in place and time / Edward S. Casey -- Arendt, Eichmann, and the politics of remembrance / Stephen Howard Browne -- "Everywhere you go, it's there" : forgetting and remembering the University of Texas tower shootings / Rosa A. Eberly -- My old Kentucky homo : Lincoln and the politics of queer public memory / Charles E. Morris III -- Shadings of regret : America and Germany / Barry Schwartz and Horst-Alfred Heinrich -- The appearance of public memory / Charles E. Scott -- The voice of the visual in memory / Barbie Zelizer -- "A timeless now" : memory and repetition / Bradford Vivian -- Renovating the national imaginary : a prolegomenon on contemporary paregoric rhetoric / Barbara Biesecker -- Framing memory through eulogy : Ronald Reagan's long good-bye / Amos Kiewe
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A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories. The study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. Essays contained in this volume address issues such as the scope of public memory, the ways we forget, the relationship between politics and memory, and the material practices of memory. Stephen Brown