Books+ Search Results
Pioneer mother monuments : constructing cultural memory
Title
Pioneer mother monuments : constructing cultural memory / Cynthia Culver Prescott.
ISBN
9780806161976
0806161973
Publication
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2019]
Physical Description
xvi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"Analyzes the ways in which public monuments to early white settlers in the western United States were erected, forgotten, and rediscovered from the late 1880s to the early 21st century in response to western race relations, shifting gender norms, and religious and regional identity"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 14, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : monuments and public memory
Enshrining white civilization in early pioneer monuments, 1890-1925
Bibles, rifles, and sunbonnets : venerating pioneer motherhood, 1925-1940
Modernity and pioneer memory in postwar monuments, 1940-1990
Mormon exceptionalism, assimilation, and Americanness, 1890-1980
Conservative commemoration and progressive protest in the culture wars, 1975-1995
Memory makes money, 1980-2005
Inclusivity and the limits of pioneer memory, 1990-2017
Conclusion : public perceptions of the American pioneer past.
Subjects
Bookmark As
Citation
