Born in the U.S.A. : birth, commemoration, and American public memory / edited by Seth C. Bruggeman.

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
Added to CLICnet on 08/26/2015

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Locating the birthplace in American Public memory / Seth C. Bruggeman — Remembering John Muir, the Trans-Atlantic father of wilderness conservation / Angela Phelps — This house holds many memories: constructions of a presidential birthplace at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site / Christine Arato — Commemorating Jimmy Carter and Southern rural life in plains, Georgia / Zachary J. Lechner — Authenticity and interpretation at Mark Twain’s Birthplace cabins / Hilary Iris Lowe — Stratford Hall: a memorial to Robert E. Lee? / Paul Reber, Laura Lawfer Orr — Memories, monuments, and Mormonism: the birthplace of Joseph Smith in Vermont / Keith A. Erekson — Rosine, Kentucky: birthplace of Bill Monroe and American bluegrass music / Cynthia Miller — Right here in Mason City : Meredith Willson and musical memory in the American Midwest / Anna Thompson Hajdik — Paulsdale: adapting Alice Paul’s birthplace for a new generation of leaders / Kris Myers — The raven in the frog pond: Edgar Allan Poe and the city of Boston / Paul Lewis, Dan Currie — Du Bois in Great Barrington: the promises and pitfalls of a boyhood historic site / David Glassberg, Robert Paynter — Conclusion of babies and bathwater: birthplace shrines and the future of the Historic House Museum / Patricia West.

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