...Drawing on a broad range of sources—including film, historiography, iconography, literature, television, and built memorials—Stephen J. Whitfield's essay “'If at First You Don't Secede': War and Remembrance” assesses why the Civil War continues to be a historical leitmotif for white southerners...

...–1919 (2004) is based on “Memories of the Great War,” a personal memoir written in 1964 by an unknown enlisted man for purposes of private remembrance, rather than by a decorated officer for purposes of public acclaim. In it, Johnston (1897–1976) tells the story of his service on the Western...

... and family are documented, recounting her funeral in New York and memorials in Bainbridge and Hollywood. In the beginning months of 1972, Becky Morehouse was in Los Angeles attending several press junkets and conducting interviews. When United Artists learned she was visiting Miriam, they asked she bring...

...Internet memorials, including tombstone Internet links with virtual memorials, funeral home memorials, Internet grieving websites, and social network sites of deceased persons, illustrate that the language of grief is both popular and spontaneous. Internet grieving allows for marginal discourse...

... Oral History Center Nazario Caron Air Force Academy Fussell Paul Marlantes Karl Military Experience & the Arts MEA Post-9/11 Veterans Higher Education Organizations Veterans Studies Research Students Memorials Kentucky In this book, I have argued that veterans of the post-9/11...

..., the account is reminiscent of the start of the ABMC and its first project. By 1960, fourteen cemetery memorials had been dedicated. This chapter also highlights the leadership of the agency’s second chairman, General George C. Marshall, and his direction of the building of memorials in eight countries...

...This chapter looks at the work the ABMC has been doing since World War II ended. The chairmanships of Generals Jacob Devers and Mark Clark are explored in some detail. Maintenance of the memorials is a mission of remembrance that the ABMC is strongly upholding. Some additional sites have been...

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...From the dead body to the virtual body and from material memorials to virtual memorials, one thing is clear: the bodiless nature of memorialization of the dead across cultures. In postindustrial, Protestant, and capitalist societies such as the United States, this trend seems much more prominent...

...Every year, people from all over the world visit American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) sites, from Normandy, France, to Busan, South Korea, to Corozal, Panama. At rest in the twenty-six overseas cemeteries are almost 139,000 dead, and memorialized on “Walls of the Missing” are 60,314 fallen...

...Kristiane Janeke traces the history of the Moscow Brothers’ (Soldiers’) Cemetery, using the specific case of this memorial to wartime fallen as a springboard to a wider discussion of suppressed memories of the First World War in Russia. The chapter argues that remembrance of the war...