Melissa M. Bender is a senior lecturer and the associate director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of California, Davis. Her monograph, Dysfunctional Family Values: Nurturing the Neoliberal Self in U.S. Memoir, will be published in 2020. Her research interests include visual and material rhetoric, writing studies, and American cultural studies. Klara Stephanie Szlezák is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Passau, Germany. She is the author of "Canonized in History": Literary Tourism and 19th-Century Writers’ Houses in New England. Her research interests include museum studies, visual culture studies, and the history of immigration.

• Introduction: The Mystic Discords of Memory – Contestation, Obliteration, and Sanitization in U.S.-American Cultures of MemoryMelissa M. Bender and Klara Stephanie SzlezákPart I: Sites and SpacesShenandoah National Park and the Racialization of ProgressAlex HarmonAssassinated Memories: The Enduring Debate over the Murder and Legacy of Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party in ChicagoAdrienne ChudzinskiMemory-Place and the Unintentional Monument: Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena (1961-2012) and Its LegacyAmy Bowman-McElhone and Jeanne M. PersuitLost Cause "Ocean to Ocean": Memory, Space, and the Jefferson Davis Highway in the WestAlexander FinkelsteinPart II: Textual Representations"An American Hero": The Right-Wing Reconstruction of Joseph McCarthyChristopher Michael Elias"You Were My Heroes": Memorializing Military Nurses of the Vietnam WarIngrid GessnerWhose Heritage? U.S. History Textbooks, American Exceptionalism, and HispanophobiaAlyssa KreikemeierApologists of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Efforts toward Historic Preservation and CommemorationJohn EliaPart III: Visual and Audiovisual Representations"No Longer Here": Remembering Japanese American Internment In School YearbooksAmy J. LueckRecent Antebellum-Themed Cinema: Race, Nation, and the Obama PresidencyJayson BakerPete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and the Preservation and Performance of American Counter-HistoryJodie Childers

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