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This book explores how ephemeral and displaced public memories continue to linger and circulate around the National Mall in Washington, DC. Chapters examine unrecognized historical events on the Mall, selective interpretations of the past within the Mall’s sites, and places of public memory hiding in plain sight.
List of contents
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
Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors
About the author
Roger C. Aden is professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University.Teresa Bergman is a Professor and Chair of the Communication Department at the University of the Pacific. She has taught for twenty–eight years at the postsecondary level, and her course topics range from documentary film history and communication criticism to film production, and she has professional documentary film production experience. The focus of Bergman’s research is analyzing the changing representations of patriotism, nationalism, citizenship, and gender in U. S. public memory sites. Her research incorporates an interdisciplinary methodology that includes rhetoric, documentary film theory, museum studies, memory studies, and critical/cultural studies. These varied theoretical approaches help to illuminate the intersection of location, memory, and representation. She has published two previous books on public memory: Exhibiting Patriotism: Creating and Contesting Interpretations of American Historic Sites (2013) and The Commemoration of Women in the United States: Remembering Women in Public SpaCarl T. Hyden is associate dean of the School of Global Journalism and Communication at Morgan State University.Elizabethada A. Wright is professor of writing studies at University of Minnesota Duluth.
Summary
This book explores how ephemeral and displaced public memories continue to linger and circulate around the National Mall in Washington, DC. Chapters examine unrecognized historical events on the Mall, selective interpretations of the past within the Mall’s sites, and places of public memory hiding in plain sight.
