Introduction: reading public places rhetorically -- The national 9/11 memorials : whom do we remember and how do we remember them? -- Local 9/11 memorials : remembering the events of 9/11 away from Ground Zero -- Johnstown, Pennsylvania : remembering slowly and differently -- Point Lookout, Maryland : remembering the fort lincoln dead, eventually and variously -- Lincoln and son come to Richmond : remembering the 16th president in the heart of the Confederacy -- Slavery, Thurgood Marshall, Roger B. Taney : Maryland's conflicted relationships -- Cambridge, Maryland : redoing the city's history -- American cities : trying to forget -- Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania : remembering in the wrong place -- Chicago's park system : make no little plans -- The high line : creating networks of accidental activists, residents, philanthropists, business people and politicians to create an unlikely urban park -- U Street NW and H Street NE in Washington, DC : contested corridors -- The Westminster arcade : politics and renaissance in providence -- PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : remembering and celebrating at the old ballgame -- Conclusion : reading politically.
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