| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas. Ed. by Gregg Cantrell and Elizabeth Hayes Turner. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xviii, 296 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 978-1-58544-563-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-569-1.)
Memory is a tricky thing. It is also a hot topic. A new H-Net group, H-Memory, was inaugurated spring 2007. SAGE Publications has announced that the first issue of the journal Memory Studies will go to print January 2008. As an academic discipline, "memory studies" exhibits the promise, controversy, and fuzziness common to new intellectual lenses, and the subjects range widely. Holidays, monuments, national mythologies, oral histories, memoirs, school textbooks, and genocide are the stuff of memories.	1
Texas is a place of memory. As W. Fitzhugh Brundage observes in the foreword to this collection of essays, the state's popular history "begins with one of the most famous appeals to memory in American history—'Remember the Alamo'" (p. xv). The essays in Lone Star Pasts are uneven in depth and quality, and the authors do not define "memory" in a consistent way, but the whole is better than the parts. The essays provide a useful road map for the various themes that scholars grapple with as we inevitably try to impose order on something that by its nature is local, various, and subjective.	. . .

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