A leading expert on the past, present, and future of public monuments in America. An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in A

Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aft

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

"From an insider's perspective, Robert C. Post ... offers insight into the politics of display and the interpretation of history. Never before has a book about

Commemoration lies at the poetic, historiographic, and social heart of human community. It is how societies define themselves and is central to the institution