Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Part I Museums, politics and persuasion
Introduction: memory, politics and human rights
1 Selective memory: memorial museums, human rights, and the politics of victimhood
Part II Writing national histories
2 Between traditional and modern museology: exhibiting national history in the Museum of Georgia
3 Curating enslavement and the colonial history of Denmark: the 2017 centennial
4 Kosovo's NEWBORN monument: persuasion, contestation, and the narrative constructions of past and future
Part III Displaying difficult pasts
5 Inspiration lives here: struggle, martyrdom, and redemption in Atlanta's National Center for Civil and Human Rights
6 The Sơn Mỹ Memorial and Museum: a continuous memorial service to remember and bear witness to the 1968 Mỹ Lai Massacre
7 Memory as persuasion: historical discourse and moral messages at Peru's Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion
Part IV Resistance through memory
8 Mexico City's Memorial to the Victims of Violence and the façade of participation
9 Narratives of ethnic and political conflict in Burundian sites of persuasion
Conclusion
Works cited
Index.