Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall

Kristin Ann Hass

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University of California Press
22 March 2013

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For the city's first two hundred years, the story told at Washington DC's symbolic center, the National Mall, was about triumphant American leaders. Since 1982, when the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated, the narrative has shifted to emphasize the memory of American wars. In the last thirty years, five significant war memorials have been built on, or very nearly on, the Mall. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, The National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During WWII, and the National World War II Memorial have not only transformed the physical space of the Mall but have also dramatically rewritten ideas about U.S. nationalism expressed there. In Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall, Kristin Ann Hass examines this war memorial boom, the debates about war and race and gender and patriotism that shaped the memorials, and the new narratives about the nature of American citizenship that they spawned. Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall explores the meanings we have made in exchange for the lives of our soldiers and asks if we have made good on our enormous responsibility to them.

By: Kristin Ann Hass
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780520274112
ISBN 10: 0520274113
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 22 March 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Forgetting the Remembered War at the Korean War Veterans Memorial 2. Legitimating the National Family with the Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial 3. The Nearly Invisible Women in Military Service for America Memorial 4. Impossible Soldiers and the National Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism during World War II 5. ""We Leave You Our Deaths, Give Them Their Meaning"": Triumph and Tragedy at the National World War II Memorial Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index"

Kristin Ann Hass is Associate Professor of American Culture at the University of Michigan and the author of Carried to the Wall: American Memory and The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (University of California Press, 1998).