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Readings on Monuments and Memorials:

Ackerman, James S. "The Power of the Classical Tradition." In Remove not the Ancient Landmark: Public Monuments and Moral Values, 21-26. Australia: OPA, 1996.

al-Khalil, Samir. The Monument. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Carrier, Peter. Holocaust Monuments and National Memory: France and Germany since 1989. New York: Berghahn Books, 2005.

Cole, Tim. selling the Holocaust. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Dupre, Judith. Monuments; America's History in Art and Memory. New York: Random House, 2007.

Dwyer, Owen J., and Derek H. Alderman. Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory. Chicago: Center for American Places, 2008.

Dynes, Wayne R. "Monument: The Word." In Remove not the Ancient Landmark: Public Monuments and Moral Values, edited by Donald Martin Reynolds, 27-31. Australia: OPA, 1996.

Davey, Peter. "Field of Memory." Architectural Review, July 2005: 80-83.

DeLappe, Joseph. Mission Statement and Project Goals. March 19, 2003. www.iraqimemorial.org (accessed October 22, 2008).

E., Till Karen. The New Berlin: Memory, Politics, and Place. London: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.


Eisenman, Peter. "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe." A+U: Architecture and Urbanism, no. 8 (August 2005): 36-53.


Eisenman, Peter. "Peter Eisenman: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Germany 1998-2005." A+U: Architecture and Urbanism, Aug 2005: 36-53.


Europe, The Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of. Materials on the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Berlin: Nicolai, 2005.

Fairbanks, Jonathan L. "Eternal Celebration in American Memorials." In Remove not the Ancient Landmark: Public Monuments and Moral Values, edited by Donald Martin Reynolds, 161-187. Australia: OPA, 1996.

Gerz, Jochen. Jochen Gerz- Res Republica. New York: Hatje Cantz, 1999.

Graves, Donna. "Representing the Race: Detroit's Monument to Joe Louis." In Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy, edited by Harriet F. Senie and Sally Webster, 215-227. New York: Icon, 1992.

Jackson, J.B. The Necessity For Ruins. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1980.

Levinson, Sanford. Written in Stone. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.

Lin, Maya. "Outsider Artist." Landscape Architecture 97, no. 2 (February 2007): 110-115.
—. Systematic Landscapes. Seattle: Yale University Press, 2006.

Ochsner, Jeffrey Karl. "A Space of Loss: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial." Journal of Architectural Education 50, no. 3 (February 1997): 156-171.

Mothersill, Mary. "Public Monuments." In Remove not the Ancient Landmark: Public Monuments and Moral Values, edited by Donald Martin Reynolds, 53-58. Australia: OPA, 1996.

Rauterberg, Hanno, Helene Binet, and Lukas Wassmann. Holocaust Memorial Berlin. Frankfurt: Lars Muller, 2005.

Reynolds, Donald Martin. "The Value of the Public Monument." In Remove not the Ancient Landmark: Public Monuments and Moral Values, edited by Donald Martin Reynolds, 59-64. Australia: OPA, 1996.


Saitowitz, Stanley. New England Holocaust Memorial. 2008. http://www.saitowitz.com/portfolio.html (accessed February 18, 2008).

Salus, Carol. "Field of silent Markers." Landscape Architecture, November 2006: 42-44,46,47.

Smith, Levi. "Window or Mirror." In Symbolic Loss, edited by Peter Homans, 105-125. London: University of Virginia Press, 2000.

Solnit, Rebecca. "The Struggle of Dawning Intelligence: On Monuments and Native Americans." Harvard Design Magazine, no. Fall (1999): 52-57.

Sommer, Richard M. "Time Incorporated: The Romantic Life of the Modern Monument." Harvard Design Magazine, no. Fall (1999): 38-44.

Szrom, Heidi. "In Search of Flexible Memorials." Landscape Architecture 98, no. 4 (April 2008): 142-144.

Wiedmar, Caroline. The Claims of Memory. London: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Williams, Paul. Memorial Museums: The Global Rush to Commemorate Atrocities. Oxford: Berg, 2007.

Wilson, Mabel O. "Between Rooms 307: Space of Memory at the National Civil Rights Museum." Harvard Design Magazine, no. Fall (1999): 28-31.

Winter, Jay. "Remembrance and Redemption." Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 1999: 71-77.


Young, James E. "Against Redemption: The arts of Countermemory in Germany Today." In Symbolic Loss, edited by Peter Homans, 126-146. London: University Press of Virginia , 2000.


—. At Memory's Edge. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.


—. The Texture of Memory; Holocaust Memorials and Museums. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Readings On African American History:

Eyerman, Ron. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Fahs, Alice, and Joan Waugh, . The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Horton, James O. Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory. Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Johnson, Charles, Patricia Smith, and WGBH Research Team. Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery. New York: Harvest Books, 1999.

Johnson, Charles, Patricia Smith, and WGBH Series Research Team. Africans in America. Orlando: Harcourt, 1998.

Horton, James Oliver, and Lois E. Horton. Slavery and the Making of America. New York: Oxford, 2006.

Kochlin, Peter. American Slavery: 1619-1877. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.

Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975.

Shklar, Judith. American Citizenship. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Thomas, Hugh. The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Readings on Art:
Bernier, Celeste-Marie. African American Visual Arts; From Slavbery to the Present. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Bradley, Will, and Charles Esche, . Art and Social Change. London: Tate, 2007.

Crimp, Douglas. "On the Museum's Ruins." In The Anti-Aesthetic, edited by Hal Foster, 49-64. NEw York: The New Press, 1998.

Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.

Mitchell, WJT, ed. Art and the Public Sphere. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Patton, Sharon F. Afrcican-American Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Powell, Richard. Black Art: A Cultural History. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2002.

Savage, Kirk. Standing Soldier, Kneeling Slave. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Savage, Kirk. "The Past in the Present." Harvard Design Magazine, no. fall (1999): 14-19.

Senie, Harriet F, and Sally Webster, . Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy. New York: Harper Collin, 1992.

Walkowitz, Daniel J, and Lisa Maya Knauer. Memory and the Impact of Political Transformation in Public Space. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.

Wood, Marcus. Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.

Narratives:

Adminstration, Work Projects, ed. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery In The United States From Interviews With Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives Part 6. New York: Kessinger Press.

Adminstration, Works Projects, ed. Slave Narratives: Volume XIV South Carolina, Part 2. New York: Bibliobazaar, 2007.

Barksdale, Richard, and Keneth Kinnamon. Black Writers of America: A Comprehensive Anthology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1972.

Gates Jr, Henry Louis, ed. The Classic Slave Narratives. New york: Signet, 2002.

Slave Narratives: Volume XIV South Carolina, Part 1. Nw York: Bibliobazaar, 2007.

Yetman, Norman R., ed. Voices From Slavery. Mineola: Dover, 2000.

Theory

Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1977.

Vidler, Anthony. The Architectural Uncanny. London: MIT Press, 1992.

West, Cornel. Democracy Matters: Winning the War Against Imperialism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.