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Independence Hall is a place Americans think they know well. Within its walls the Continental Congress declared independence in 1776, and in 1787 the Founding F
Places of Public Memory
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Though we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And alth
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Public Memory, Race, and Ethnicity
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Scholars across the humanities and social sciences who study public memory study the ways that groups of people collectively remember the past. One motivation f