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"According to My Reckoning": Remembering and Commemorating Slavery and Emancipation

A Generation Set Apart: Union Civil War Veterans and Northern Society

A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek

A White Historian Reads Black History: A One-Person, Homemade Public History Project

America's Ghosts: Ruins and Lost Worlds in the American Imagination

B

Betsy Ross: The Life Behind the Legend

Blue, Gray and Black: The Origins of Memorial Day, 1865-1885

Bridging across the Academic/Public History Chasm

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Cemeteries and Constitutional Culture before the Civil War

Cold War Nostalgia: From "Stalin World Theme Park", Lithuania, to the International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C.

Collecting Frogs and Toads: Tales from the Archives of the American Museum of Natural History

Commerce and Civil War Memory

Confronting the Causes of the Civil War in Public: The National Park Service and American Memory

Contested Memory: The Struggle over the Meaning and Legacy of the Vietnam War, 1975-2010

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Difficult Subjects: James H. Meredith, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Problem of Monumental History

Digital Frontiers: Mapping and Memorializing Violence

Disease, Death, and Memorials: The Agent Orange Quilt of Tears and the AIDS Memorial Quilt

Doing Women's History in Public: Using Tangible Resources to Enliven our Understanding

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Finding Common Ground in Arlington National Cemetery

From Soldier to Veteran: Carrying Home the Baggage of War

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"Girlhood (It's complicated)" An Exhibition for the Centennial of Woman Suffrage

Gettysburg's Loose Canon: The Shifting Story of the Civil War's Big Battle

Gettysburg: A Seductive Commemorative Landscape

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Historical Memory, Storytelling, and Domestic Worker Organizing

History and Memory of the Civil Rights Movement

History Moves and the Mobile Humanities, or How Might We Put the Public at the Center of Public History?

Horizons of History: Space, Time, and the Future of the Past

How American History in School and on the Landscape Demeans Native Americans

How Should We Remember? Reconstruction at 150

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Interpreting African American History in American Museums

J

Jennie Wade's Bad Reputation

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in History and Memory: Reappraising America's Heroes

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Lessons from the Bracero History Project

Living for the City: Twentieth-Century Urban Lives, Nineteenth-Century Hinterland Histories, and the Creation of Usable Pasts

Lynching Memorials and Sites of Shame: Transforming Violence in American Commemorative Cultures

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Memorial Mania: Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America

Memorializing and Memory: Slavery, Civil War, Jim Crow, Civil Rights Movement

Memorializing the Movement: Civil Rights Commemorations and America's Ideology of Tolerance

Memories of a Massacre: Remembering Reconstruction in a Mid-South City

Memory and History in Post-1941 Black America

Mobilizing Memory: How to Remember the Civil Rights Movement and Why it Matters

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National Parks and Historic Sites: American History

Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums

New American History

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Other Monumentalities: Building the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Patriotic Optics and the War on Terror

Penn Center: The Abolitionist Legacy from the Civil War to the Present

Practicing Public History: Feminist Projects and Prospects

Preserve the Baltimore Uprising: A Case Study in Public History Practice

Public Feeling, Public Healing: Contemporary Memorials and the Mediation of Grief

Public History and Its Roles Inside and Outside the History Profession

Public History and Pride of Place in Minority-Majority Cities

Public History in the University: Possibilities, Practicalities, and Pitfalls

Public Memory and Reconciliation: The Choctaw Gift to the Irish

Public Memory of the Private Lives of the Founding Fathers

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

Race, Motherhood, and the Commemoration of America's World War I Dead

Radical Roots: Social Justice Activism and the Historical Landscape

Reading the Great Constitutional Dream Book: The Black Origins of Brown v. Board of Education

Rebooting the Cold War: Nostalgia and Global Disorder Since 1989

Reconciling and Reuniting the Nation: How Americans Have Remembered the Civil War

Remembering Lee: Disputes among Virginia's Men and Women over the Lee Monument

Remembering Pearl Harbor: Native Hawaiian History and a "Day That Will Live in Infamy"

Remembering Reconstruction: America's Second Founding

Retrospective Justice (truth commissions, reparations, national apologies, etc.)

Rewriting Reconstruction

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Serial Nomination of U. S. Civil Rights Sites to UNESCO's World Heritage List

Shared Memories and Misleading Histories: Examples from the American West

Slavery in American History and Memory

Statues, Murals, and Parades: Commemorating "Lost Causes" in Ireland and the American South

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"Through the Heart of Dixie": Sherman's March and American Memory

Tea and the Politics of Protest and Commemoration in Revolutionary America

The American Remembrance of World War II

The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima in American History and Memory

The Business of History in Museum Settings

The Cold War Mystique: American Families in Myth and History

The Contested American Past

The Democratic Potential of Public History in a Multiracial Society

The Enduring Enigma of Vietnam in American History

The Ghosts of Western Future and Past: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West from the Homestead Act to the Present

The Great Force of History: Collective Memory, White Innocence, and Making Black Lives Matter

The History Manifesto

The Legacies of World War I

The Legacy of Concord in the American West

The Lives and Afterlives of Lewis and Clark

The NAACP in African American History: Myths and Realities

The Past Around Us: Connecting Students to the Practice of History

The Public Storm: Hurricanes and the Environmental History of Modern America

The Real Curators of Constitution Avenue: A Conversation on Public History, Museums, and the Politics of Collecting America

The Rock and the Crucifix: 200 Years of Remembering Junipero Serra

The Significance of the Bureaucrat in American History: Hair-Raising Tales from the Department of the Interior

The Southern Civil Rights Movement in History and Memory

The Story of the National Museum of African American History and Culture

The Study of Historical Memory: Why, and Why Now?

The Time of Slavery: History, Memory, Politics, and the Constitution

The Vietnam War and American National Identity

The Vietnam War from Multiple Perspectives

The War in Vietnam: Studies in Remembrance and Legacy, 2000–2014 (based on his Choice essay)

The Way Things Used To Be? The Politics of Nostalgia in Contemporary America

Thinking Historically, Reaching Broadly: Notes on Sharing Research outside the Academy

Tombstone, Deadwood, Dodge City, and the Wild West

Transforming Hindsight into Foresight: Adventures in "Applied History"

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What the Nostalgic Subject Knows: Nostalgia, the Nineteenth-Century Archive, and the Melancholy History of Antebellum America

What To Do About Confederate Monuments, and Why

What We Can Learn from The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-19

Whose Past? Whose Memory? Contests Over the South's History

Why Don’t Latter-day Saints Have a Lost Cause?

Why the Vietnam War Still Matters

William Mahone: The Confederate General Who Was Erased

Wishtory and History