| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 167 pages) |
| Series |
American Association for State and Local History book series |
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American Association for State and Local History book series.
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| Contents |
Introduction: conundrum and nuance in American memory / Seth C. Bruggeman -- The exhibition and the funeral: commemoration as display / Tammy S. Gordon -- Festivals as a commemorative genre / William S. Walker -- Reenactment: performing the past / Cathy Stanton -- A local commemoration of national significance / Anne C. Reilly -- Get territorial: Idaho at 150 / Janet L. Gallimore -- Global histories and cross-border commemoration / Adam Hjorthén -- Sir John A. Macdonald and the problem of great men / Jean-Pierre Morin -- Gay is good: commemorating LGBTQ history / Kenneth C. Turino -- Sacred subjects: religion and commemoration in America / Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas -- Commemoration as activism / Patrick Grossi -- Alive in our imagination: the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War / Rick Beard and Bob Beatty -- Commemorating tragedy at Mother Emanuel AME Church / George W. McDaniel -- Afterword: commemoration, conversation, and public feeling in America today / Erika Doss |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Commemoration |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 01, 2017) |
| Subject |
Memorialization -- United States
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Memorials -- United States.
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Collective memory -- United States
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Anniversaries.
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Public history -- United States
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Anniversaries and Special Events
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Anniversaries.
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Collective memory.
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Memorialization.
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Memorials.
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Public history.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Anniversaries, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139796
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United States -- History, Local -- Anniversaries, etc
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Local history.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975- editor.
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American Association for State and Local History.
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| LC no. |
2017033231 |
| ISBN |
9781442279209 |
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1442279206 |
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