| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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Canada and the United States

Christopher A. Thomas. The Lincoln Memorial in American Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xxxii, 213. $35.00.

Since the 1980s, the study of memory has been a flourishing subdiscipline in academic history, notably in the work of scholars like Michael Kammen, John Bodnar, and David W. Blight. So has the analysis of public memorials by historians such as Kirk Savage and Thomas J. Brown—a sub-subdiscipline of the history of memory, as it were. Not surprisingly, Abraham Lincoln has figured prominently in this discourse as a protean figure who has been cast, literally and figuratively, in a variety of stances. Drawing on much of this work, as well as an array of archival sources, Christopher A. Thomas has fashioned an impressive account of a key crossroads of these conversations (among others).

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