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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
After Charlottesville: How the Confederate Monument Debate Became a Game Changer for Historians
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
C
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
D
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
F
Finding Common Ground in Arlington National Cemetery
From Soldier to Veteran: Carrying Home the Baggage of War
G
"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
H
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
I
Interpreting African American History in American Museums
J
Jennie Wade's Bad Reputation
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in History and Memory: Reappraising America's Heroes
L
Lessons from the Bracero History Project
Lynching Memorials and Sites of Shame: Transforming Violence in American Commemorative Cultures
M
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
N
National Parks and Historic Sites: American History
Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums
New American History
No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
O
Other Monumentalities: Building the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
P
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
R
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
S
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
T
"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
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