Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
This session examines public monuments, grand and modest, with a view towards understanding the cultural factors that shape their creation, maintenance, and removal. Why are some events and individuals commemorated and others forgotten or erased? What factors drive the erection of monuments and other forms of commemoration? How does the public interact with monuments? How do monuments reflect and shape our national mythology? This session aims to bring archaeological and cultural heritage perspectives to bear on a category of highly visible artifacts imbued with meaning and meant to convey information to future generations.
Other Keywords
Slavery •
Monuments •
Cemetery •
commemoration •
Memorials •
Migration •
Urban Archaeology •
Civil War •
Language •
Community
Temporal Keywords
19th Century •
20th Century •
19th and 20th Century •
Historical •
1800s •
1800-Present •
18th-20th century •
20th •
19th •
and 21st centuries
Geographic Keywords
Coahuila (State / Territory) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Nuevo Leon (State / Territory) •
Delaware (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-11 of 11)
- Documents (11)
- Artifacts of Glory and Pain: Evolving Cultural Narratives on Confederate Symbolism and Commemoration (2020)
- Forgetting and Remembering "Poverty Row": A Case Study of the Pullman National Monument (2020)
- The Fredericksburg Slave Auction Block: A Material Reminder of Race Relations in Virginia (2020)
- German Gravemarkers and Cultural Retention (2020)
- Making the Absent Present: Forgetting and Remembering the African American Past in Putnam County, Indiana (2020)
- Memorializing Defeat: Remembering Civil Wars in Finland and USA (2020)
- "No (repeat no) funds will be available to Traditions Committee:" A Case Study in Memorialization Logistics (2020)
- Refugees, Resettlement, Revealed History and Commemoration of the Tutelo Diaspora (2020)
- Remembering a Painful Past: Fredericksburg's Slave Auction Block (2020)
- Standing for Sacred Spaces: NC Division of Cultural Resources and the African American Burial Ground Network Act (2020)
- "That These Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain," The Above-Ground Archaeology of New Jersey’s War Memorials (2020)