Description
US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines “the nation’s front yard,” working out it as both a public face the US presents to the world and a web page where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated examination of how the National Mall shares a moral story of the US and, in so doing, reveals the soul of the nation. The contributors explore 11 different memorials, monuments, and museums found around the Mall, bearing in mind how every rhetorically remembers a key portion of the nation’s past, what the rhetorical memory tells us in regards to the nation’s soul, and how every web page should thus be understood with regards to the commemorative landscape of the Mall.