US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall

US Public Memory, Rhetoric, and the National Mall examines the nations front yard, understanding it as both a public face the United States presents to the world and a site where its less apparent moral story is told. This book provides a uniquely thorough, interdisciplinary, and integrated examination of how the National Mall shares a moral story of the United States and, in so doing, reveals the soul of the nation. The contributors explore 11 different memorials, monuments, and museums found across the Mall, considering how each rhetorically remembers a key element of the nations past, what the rhetorical memory tells us about the nations soul, and how each site must thus be understood in relation to the commemorative landscape of the Mall.