...This chapter looks at the establishment of the ABMC and the history of American cemeteries and monuments in Europe. During the First World War, in a span of about seven months, America left more than 75,000 American soldiers dead in Europe. Torn between bringing the soldiers home and the expense...

... on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., that was dedicated in 2004. This chapter concludes with an assessment of the enduring importance of the work of the ABMC. The WWI veterans have all passed away, and WWII veterans are becoming fewer. The ABMC’s efforts to maintain the beautiful memorials, monuments...

... the Civil War. She also visited the studio of Richmond artist Edward Valentine. The letters in this chapter are full of excellent commentary on public buildings, monuments, and cemeteries. Dickinson also has much to say about the state of race relations in Virginia politics and the ways in which...

... and his policies as one means to consolidate power. The victims of Burbridge’s executions were reinterred with grand public funerals and imposing monuments; Burbridge’s efforts to gain a federal appointment or to help others who sought them earned him the wrath and strident opposition of Kentucky’s...

...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...

...The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) was created by an act of Congress in 1923. For more than ninety years the ABMC has been one of the smallest independent federal agencies. This chapter introduces the coming text and that the book will endeavor to show that the commission has been...

...This chapter examines the future for the ABMC after the project the agency had been created to do—namely, build and dedicate the eight cemetery chapels and eleven monuments—was completed. Discussing in great detail the planning for the dedication of the memorials in 1937, the chapter points out how...

... USS John C. Stennis renaming racist monuments race activism Thomas D. Goodall next commanded the USS Thach, a frigate homeported in Japan, and made captain. He escaped accountability, like the skipper of the USS Shiloh, dubbed a “prison ship” by the media. It’s...