| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Paul A. Shackel, editor. Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2001. Pp. xiii, 286. $59.95.

For this collection, editor Paul A. Shackel invited a group of fellow archaeologists and public historians to consider a dozen nationally significant historic sites or monuments with two questions in mind: how has the public meaning of each site changed over time? And how have different groups struggled to impose their particular interpretations on the landscape in question? The result is a lively and accessible collection of case studies that lays bare the ongoing politics of American heritage presentation. 1

Shackel divides these essays into three, admittedly overlapping categories of collective historical memory, which he terms "exclusionary," "patriotic," and "nostalgic." Exclusionary interpretations come at the expense of subordinate groups whose experiences are masked by mainstream narratives. Patriotic commemorations promote the ideals of cultural leaders and are particularly concerned with advancing the interests of the nation as a whole. Nostalgic renderings of the past may use false or quite selective notions of history to create and sustain a national mythology. All three categories erase or distort aspects of history in the name of group cohesion. . . .

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