Popular Memories: Commemoration, Participatory Culture, and Democratic Citizenship

by Ekaterina V. Haskins

A critical exploration of the ways public participation has transformed commemoration and civic engagement in the United States

In the last three decades ordinary Americans launched numerous grassroots commemorations and official historical institutions became more open to popular participation. In this first book-length study of participatory memory practices, Ekaterina V. Haskins critically examines this trend by asking how and with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611174945
• ISBN13: 9781611174946
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"