Memorials Matter: Emotion, Environment and Public Memory at American Historical Sites

ISBN-13: 9781943859962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 320 str.

Jennifer K. Ladino

Opis

Investigates the natural and physical environments of seven diverse National Park Service sites in the American West and how they influence emotions about historical conflict and national identity. Chapters center around the region's diverse inhabitants and the variously traumatic histories these groups endured.

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Table of Contents

Preface xi

Introduction: Feeling Like a Mountain: Scale, Patriotism, and Affective Agency at Mount Rushmore National Memorial 1

1. “Fears Made Manifest”: Desert Creatures and Border Anxiety at Coronado National Memorial 41

2. Placing Historical Trauma: Guilt, Regret, and Compassion at Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site 82

3. Performing Patriotism: Reenactment, Historicity, and Thing-Power at Golden Spike National Historic Site 121

4. Remembering War in Paradise: Grief, Aloha, and Techno-patriotism at WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument 157

5. Mountains, Monuments, and other Matter: Reckoning with Racism and Simulating Shame at Manzanar National Historic Site 195

6. “We have died. Remember us.”: Fear, Wonder, and Overlooking the Buffalo Soldiers at Golden Gate National Recreation Area 227

Postscript: Going Rogue with the Alt-NPS: Managing Love and Hate for an Alternative Anthropocene 261

Acknowledgments 275

Bibliography 277

Index 287

About the Author 297