Monument Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monument Wars write by Kirk Savage. This book was released on 2011-07-11. Monument Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century.
War and Remembrance
War and Remembrance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War and Remembrance write by Thomas H. Conner. This book was released on 2018-10-05. War and Remembrance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell. The land he died to save vies with the one which gave him birth in paying tribute to his memory, and the kindly hands which so often come to spread flowers upon his earthly coverlet express in their gentle task a personal affection."—General John J. Pershing To remember and honor the memory of the American soldiers who fought and died in foreign wars during the past hundred years, the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was established. Since the agency was founded in 1923, its sole purpose has been to commemorate the soldiers' service and the causes for which their lives were given. The twenty-five overseas cemeteries honoring 139,000 combat dead and the memorials honoring the 60,314 fallen soldiers with no known graves are among the most beautiful and meticulously maintained shrines in the world. In the first comprehensive study of the ABMC, Thomas H. Conner traces how the agency came to be created by Congress in the aftermath of World War I, how the cemeteries and monuments the agency built were designed and their locations chosen, and how the commemorative sites have become important "outposts of remembrance" on foreign soil. War and Remembrance powerfully demonstrates that these monuments—living sites that embody the role Americans played in the defense of freedom far from their own shores—assist in understanding the interconnections of memory and history and serve as an inspiration to later generations.
Monument Wars
Monument Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monument Wars write by Kirk Savage. This book was released on 2009. Monument Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century.
Testament to Union
Testament to Union - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Testament to Union write by Kathryn Allamong Jacob. This book was released on 1998-10-13. Testament to Union available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book tells the stories behind the many District of Columbia statues that honor participants in the Civil War. Organized geographically for easy use on walking or driving tours, the entries list the subject and title of each memorial along with its sculptor, medium, date, and location. 92 photos.
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves
Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves write by Kirk Savage. This book was released on 2018-07-31. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supremacy The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces—specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history took place amid struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments exposed the myth of a "united" people, and have only become more controversial with the passage of time.
