Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781943665891)

From Wounded Knee to the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and from the Upper Big Branch mine disaster to the Trail of Tears, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered presents photographs of significant sites from US history, posing unsettling questions about the contested memory of traumatic episodes from the nation's past. Focusing especially on landscapes related to African American, Native American, and labor history, Marked, Unmarked, Remembered reveals new vistas of officially commemorated sites, sites that are neglected or obscured, and sites that serve as a gathering place for active rituals of organized memory.

These powerful photographs by award-winning photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein are interspersed with short essays by some of the leading historians of the United States. The book is introduced with substantive meditations on meaning and landscape by Alex Lichtenstein, editor of the American Historical Review, and Edward T. Linenthal, former editor of the Journal of American History. Individually, these images convey American history in new and sometimes startling ways. Taken as a whole, the volume amounts to a starkly visual reckoning with the challenges of commemorating a violent and conflictual history of subjugation and resistance that we forget at our peril.


Author: Andrew Lichtenstein,Alex Lichtenstein
ISBN-10: 1943665893
ISBN-13: 9781943665891
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2017
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 8.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 10/16/2017
Shelf Awareness 10/24/2017