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Winner, John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers, 1997
Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized—or not—the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to recent acts of violence and terror, including the destruction of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine High School massacre, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Contents
A Landscape of Violence and Tragedy
The Veneration of Heroes and Martyrs
Community and Catharsis
Heroic Lessons
Innocent Places
The Mark of Shame
The Land-Shape of Memory ancl Tradition
Stigmata of National Identity
Invisible and Shadowed Pasts
Afterword
Notes
Index
