Monuments and Memorials Bibliography
C. Mires, 1/2001
Useful Books for Locating Local Monuments
Bach, Public Art in Philadelphia (1992)
Bzdak and Petersen, Public Sculpture in New Jersey (1999)
Articles / ChaptersBlack, "Struggling with Icons: Memorializing Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt," Public Historian 21 (1): 63-72.
Boime, "Patriarchy Fixed in Stone: Gutzon Borglum's Mount Rushmore, American Art 1991 5 (1-2): 143-167.
Brigham, "Monument or Memorial? The Wall and the Politics of Memory," Historical Reflections 1999 25 (1): 165-75.
Dabakis, "Martyrs and Monuments of Chicago: The Haymarket Affair," Prospects 1994 (19): 99-133.
Davis, "Empty Eyes, Marble Hand: The Confederate Monument and the South," Journal of Popular Culture 1982 16 (3): 2-21.
Graham, "On the Mall, A Monument to the Nineties," Public Historian 1997 19 (3): 7-10.
Havig, "Presidential Images, History, and Homage: Memorializing Theodore Roosevelt, 1919-1967," American Quarterly 1978 30 (4): 514-32.
Headley, "The Monument Without a Public: The Case of The Tripoli Monument," Winterthur Portfolio 29 (Winter 1994): 247-64.
Lachin, "'Worthy of National Commemoration': National Statuary Hall and the Heroic Ideal, 1864-1997," in Kennon, The United States Capitol: Designing and Decorating a National Icon (2000)
Lieberman, "Race and Remembrance: Philadelphia's All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors and the Politics of Place," American Art Journal 1998 29 (1-2): 18-51.
McDowell, "Martin Milmore's Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on the Boston Common: Formulating Conventionalism in Design and Symbolism," Journal of American Culture 1988 11 (1): 63-85.
Mehrhoff, "The Image of the City: The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial as Monument to Progress," Urban Affairs Quarterly 1988 24 (1): 46-68.
*** Especially recommended*** Sandage, "A Marble House Divided: The Lincoln Memorial, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Politics of Memory," Journal of American History 80 (June 1993): 135-67.
Savage, "The Self-Made Monument: George Washington and the Fight to Erect a National Memorial," Winterthur Portfolio 1987 22 (4): 225-242.
Sturken, "The Wall, the Screen, and the Image: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial," Representations 1991 (35) 118-142.
Books
Boime, The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalist Era (1997)
Dillon and Kotler, The Statue of Liberty Revisited (1994)
Haas, Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1998)
Henry, Monumental Accusations: The Monuments Aux Morts As Expressions of Popular Resentment (1996)
King, Monuments of the Great War in Britain: The Symbolism and Politics of Remembrance (1998)
Levinson, Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (1998)
Lin, Boundaries (2000)
Marling and Wetenhall, Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memorials, and the American Hero (1991)
Mayo, War Memorials as Political Landscape (1988)
Michelski, Public Monuments: Art in Political Bondage, 1870-1997 (1998)
Milton and Nowinski, In Fitting Memory: The Art and Politics of Holocaust Memorials
Moreno, The Statue of Liberty Encyclopedia (2000)
Nora, Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past (translation, 1996)
Seelye, Memory's Nation: The Place of Plymouth Rock (1996)