Commemoration - The American Association for State and Local History Guide

Commemoration:The American Association for State and Local History Guide serves as a handbook for all who contend daily with the ground-level complexities of commemoration. It covers varieties of commemorative scope and genre, planning commemorative events, and possibilities for assessing and sustaining commemorative impact.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Conundrum and Nuance in American Memory - Seth C. Bruggeman
2. The Exhibition and the Funeral: Commemoration as Display - Tammy S. Gordon
3. Festivals as a Commemorative Genre - William S. Walker
4. Reenactment: Performing the Past - Cathy Stanton
5. A Local Commemoration of National Significance - Anne C. Reilly
6. Get Territorial: Idaho at 150 - Janet L. Gallimore
7. Global Histories and Cross-Border Commemoration - Adam Hjorthén
8. Sir John A. Macdonald and the Problem of Great Men - Jean-Pierre Morin
9. Gay is Good: Commemorating LGBTQ History - Kenneth C. Turino
10. Sacred Subjects: Religion and Commemoration in America - Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas
11. Commemoration as Activism - Patrick Grossi
12. Alive in Our Imagination: The Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War - Rick Beard and Bob Beatty
13. Commemorating Tragedy at Mother Emanuel AME Church - George W. McDaniel
14. Afterword: Commemoration, Conversation, and Public Feeling in America Today - Erika Doss

About the author

Seth C. Bruggeman is an associate professor of History at Temple University, where he periodically directs the Center for Public History. His books include Born in the USA: Birth and Commemoration in American Public Memory, and Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument.

Summary

Commemoration: The American Association for State and Local History Guide serves as a handbook for all who contend daily with the ground-level complexities of commemoration. It covers varieties of commemorative scope and genre, planning commemorative events, and possibilities for assessing and sustaining commemorative impact.

Product details

• Authors: Seth C. Bruggeman, Seth C. (EDT) Bruggeman
• Assisted by: Seth C Bruggeman (Editor), Seth C. Bruggeman (Editor), Bruggeman Seth C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781442279193
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7919-3
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: American Association for State & Local History; American Association for State; American Association for State; American Association for State and Local History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Business and Management, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Management and management techniques, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies