Places of Public Memory

A sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric   Though we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And although popular and public discourses from speeches to films invite a shared sense of the past, official sites of memory such as memorials, museums, and battlefields embody unique rhetorical principles.   Places of Public Memory: The Rhetor