| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Forgetting the remembered war at the Korean War Veterans Memorial -- Legitimating the national family with the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial -- The nearly invisible Women in Military Service for America Memorial -- Impossible soldiers and the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism during World War II -- "We leave you our deaths, give them their meaning": triumph and tragedy at the national World War II Memorial. |
| Summary |
For the city's first two hundred years, the story told at Washington DC's symbolic center, the National Mall, was about triumphant American leaders. Since 1982, when the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated, the narrative has shifted to emphasize the memory of American wars. In the last thirty years, five significant war memorials have been built on, or very nearly on, the Mall. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, The National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During WWII, and the National World War II M. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
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War memorials -- Washington (D.C.)
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War memorials. |
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Washington (D.C.) |
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World War II Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
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World War II Memorial (Washington, D.C.) |
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Korean War Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
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Korean War Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.) |
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National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism (Washington, D.C.)
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National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism (Washington, D.C.) |
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Memorialization -- United States.
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Memorialization. |
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United States. |
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Collective memory -- United States.
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Collective memory. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hass, Kristin Ann, 1965- Sacrificing soldiers on the National Mall. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013 9780520274105 (DLC) 2012044182 (OCoLC)816499150 |
| ISBN |
9780520954755 (electronic book) |
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0520954750 (electronic book) |
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9780520274105 |
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0520274105 |
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9780520274112 |
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0520274113 |
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