Roger C. Aden is professor in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University.

• AcknowledgmentsI. IntroductionChapter 1. Haunting, Public Memories, and the National MallRoger C. AdenII. Affective Presences of Ephemeral Memories Chapter 2. Invoking the Spirits: A Rhetorical SéanceAaron Hess, A. Cheree Carlson, and Carlos FloresChapter 3. Before the National Mall: Coxey’s Army and the Precedent for Public ProtestSean LuechtefeldChapter 4. The Bonus Army March of 1932: Uneasy Legacies of Protest, Dissent, and Violence in American MemoryRoger C. Aden and Kenneth E. FooteChapter 5. The “Unmarked and Unremarked” Memories of the National Mall: Resurrection City and the Unreconciled History of the Civil Rights Movement as Radical Place-MakingEthan Bottone, Derek H. Alderman, and Joshua InwoodIII. Faint Traces of Deflected MemoriesChapter 6. Haunting Dreams: Time and Affect in the Neoliberal Commemoration of “I Have a Dream”Michael P. VicaroChapter 7. The Haunting of “Forgotten” Places: Nineteenth Century Slave-Pens on the National MallElizabethada A. WrightChapter 8. The Portrait Monument’s Emblematic and Tortured HistoryTeresa BergmanChapter 9. Which Souls Shall Haunt Us? Competing Genocidal Memoryscapes and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Selective Colonial MemorializationsMarouf Hasian Jr. and Stephanie Marek MullerChapter 10. Oft’ Remembered, Oft’ Forgotten: Remembering James GarfieldTheodore F. SheckelsChapter 11. The National Gallery of Art: Remembering the Haunting Voices of the GhostsCarl T. HydenIV. ConclusionChapter 12. Confronting the Ghosts in the National AtticRoger C. AdenIndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors

We are, as Roger C. Aden suggests in the introduction to Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall, forever haunted by the past. We cannot escape the past, even when parts of it are dispersed, displaced, and downplayed. There may be no more compelling example of this truth than the commemorative landscape of the National Mall, which is the apogee of official appeals to national memory. For even as its monuments of marble and stone aggressively tell one story of our nation, other stories can be heard in the spaces betwixt and between these national landmarks. In a truly innovative collection of essays, Rhetorics Haunting the National Mall thoughtfully explores these alternative stories, illuminating the complex and contested nature of public memory in the process. A truly fascinating and unexpected examination of the most famous landscape of memory in the US.