The Collective Memory Reader. Jeffrey Olick, Vered Vinitsky-Serrroussi, eds.

The Collective Memory Reader. Jeffrey Olick, Vered Vinitsky-Serrroussi, eds. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Mapping Time: The Calendar and Its History, Revised ed. E. G. Richards.

Mapping Time: The Calendar and Its History, Revised ed. E. G. Richards. Oxford University Press, 2000.

Domesticating History: The Political origins of America's House Museums. By Patricia West.

Domesticating History: The Political origins of America's House Museums. By Patricia West. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999. Mount Vernon became a pawn in pre-Civil War nationalist rhetoric. and other fascinating stories. Orchard House, Monticello, Booker T Washington National Monument.

Watergate in American memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past. By Michael Schudson.

Watergate in American memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past. By Michael Schudson. Basic Books, 1992. Not just about Watergate. Schudson analyzes how memories become enmeshed with the day to day operation of institutions-- how memories become resonant--what makes history more or less malleable.

Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish memory. by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi.

Zakhor: Jewish History and Jewish memory. by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. University of Washington, 1996. Got it for James Young's Grad class on Memory at UMass Amherst.

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves by Kirk Savage.

Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage. Princeton University Press, 1997. This book is SO GOOD. The introduction argues that racism in the US is inextricably tied up with the representation of the human body, and the following chapters look at the failure of the US to create memorials to Emancipation, slavery, and the Civil War because of this problem. Fantastic chapters on the Richmond Lee Monument, memorials to Common Soldiers, etc.

Cavalier and Yankee: the Old South and American Character by William R. Taylor.

Cavalier and Yankee: the Old South and American Character by William R. Taylor. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South by Gaines M. Foster

Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South by Gaines M. Foster Oxford University press, 1987. Confederate memory morphing over the decades. Very useful background for my dissertation.

Baptized in Blood: the religion of the Lost Cause 1865-1920. by Charles Reagan Wilson.

Baptized in Blood: the Religion of the Lost Cause 1865-1920. by Charles Reagan Wilson. University of Georgia Press, 1980. Confederate symbolism + Christian symbols = an entrenched Confederate identity. Very useful for the dissertation.

The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society. by Thomas L. Connelly.

The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society. by Thomas L. Connelly. Louisiana State University press, 1977. How his image was created and how it has shifted. Very useful for the dissertation.

In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949. by Jeffrey K. Olick.

In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949. by Jeffrey K. Olick. University of Chicago press, 2005.

War and remembrance in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan.

War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Jay Winter and Emmanuel Sivan. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Neutralizing Memory: The Jew in Contemporary Poland. by Iwona Irwin-Zarecka.

Neutralizing Memory: The Jew in Contemporary Poland. by Iwona Irwin-Zarecka. Transaction Publishers, 1990.

Remembering to Forget: Holocaust memory through the Camera's Eye by Barbie Zelizer

Remembering to Forget: Holocaust memory through the Camera's Eye by Barbie Zelizer University of Chicago press, 1998. The photos of the concentration camps at liberation are our memories of the Holocaust.

History Wars edited by Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt.

History Wars: The Enola Gay and other Battles for the American Past. edited by Edward Linenthal and Tom Engelhardt. Henry Holt and Company, 1996. The Enola Gay controversy, related controversies, culture wars. essays.